[Duplicity-talk] Difficulties with restore: 'Could not restore the following files. Please make sure you are able to write to them.'

[andrew]

Hello,

I hope you're keeping. I've run into a difficult with duplicity and I am 
at a loss to understand the difficulty. Any suggestions would be 
appreciated.

I have been using Déjà Dup on Fedora 33 for weekly backups of my home 
directory which includes a hidden Thunderbird directory. I installed 
Fedora 35 and tried using restore (Backups 42.8). While this has 
successfully restored most of the files, it hasn't been successful with 
some Thunderbird files - but not all of them!

For example:

/home/awood/Documents/myDocuments/Thunderbird-gnapcorg10nov2021/pop.gn.apc.org/Mail/Local 
Folders/Inbox
/home/awood/Documents/myDocuments/Thunderbird-gnapcorg10nov2021/pop.gn.apc.org/Mail/Local 
Folders/Inbox.msf
/home/awood/Documents/myDocuments/Thunderbird-gnapcorg10nov2021/pop.gn.apc.org/Mail/Local 
Folders/Sent
/home/awood/Documents/myDocuments/Thunderbird-gnapcorg10nov2021/pop.gn.apc.org/Mail/Local 
Folders/Sent.msf
/home/awood/Documents/myDocuments/Thunderbird-gnapcorg10nov2021/pop.gn.apc.org/Mail/Local 
Folders/Trash
/home/awood/Documents/myDocuments/Thunderbird-gnapcorg10nov2021/pop.gn.apc.org/Mail/Local 
Folders/Trash.msf

At the end of the restore then these files are listed along with 'Could 
not restore the following files. Please make sure you are able to write 
to them.'

I can't think of any reason why they couldn't be written - there's 
definitely space on the disk. I also tried to restore the back-up on 
Ubuntu and I had the same message.

Any suggestions? Thank-you.

Best wishes,

Andrew

Andrew Wood, Oxford.