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

[andrew]

Hi ede,

Thank-you for the command line addition.

Using this now:

duplicity restore -v9 --file-to-restore home/awood/.thunderbird 
file:///run/media/awood/MyPassport/Deja-Vu-Back-up/ 
home/awood/.thunderbird > output.txt 2>&1

Gives the attached file. Apologies for the size of it.

Best wishes,

Andrew

Andrew Wood, Oxford.

- o -

On 12/11/2021 16:52, edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> 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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