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

[edgar . soldin]

hey Andrew,

this still does _not_ contain an error stack. pretty likely error are put out to 
STDERR which you omitted to redirect. please run again with '2>&1' in the end 
e.g.

duplicity restore ... > output.txt 2>&1

nothing is supposed to be output to the terminal then as all is captured by the 
redirect into the file given!

good luck.. ede

On 12.11.2021 17:02, andrew via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> Hi ede/everyone,
>
> To investigate why duplicity wasn't restoring the email files which I mentioned 
> then I ran this:
>
> duplicity restore -v9 --file-to-restore home/awood/.thunderbird 
> file:///run/media/awood/MyPassport/Deja-Vu-Back-up/ home/awood/.thunderbird > 
> output.txt
>
> I've attached the outputfile which is 3.7 MB. There were also some libsync 
> errors which I guess were being output on stderr?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Andrew
>
> Andrew Wood, Oxford
>
> - o -
>
>
> On 11/11/2021 12:49, edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> > On 10.11.2021 20:20, andrew via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > hey Andrew,
> >
> > we need more details. could you please run duplicity with maximum
> > verbosity '-v9' and put the full command line output to pastebin or
> > the like and post the link here? obfuscate information you deem
> > private in it beforehand!
> >
> > ..regards ede/duply.net
> >
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