Please do not ask me why, it is expected behavior:
Restore data application must be explicitly installed from the Software Center. Please note that selective restore will be available only for backups executed after the application installation.
But what about full restore from the standard backup? What’s the meaning to do a 14 days retetion backups if I can not select a date for a full roll-back?
It’s and Hardware installation, no VM. With a duplicity incremental backup with a 14 days retentionon a NAS.
I tested the resotre routine the next day I installed the machine
In this specific case last working backup was restored fine, but what I would like to restore is a roll-back from 5 days ago.
When I select Restore in the Backup-Data menù, I can only choose the duplicity backup I configured, with any option to select 1, 2, 3 or more days before.
Sorry if u felt offended by my considerations, still it bugs me why I have an option to do an incremental backup with no option to choose which to restore.
If USB, the disk must not be mounted on the restore target, the process should take care of that.
AFAIK, it fails if you manually mount the USB.
Why am I offering this info about USB?
You said Duplicity, so it is obvious that any sane person would use a NAS, not a USB Disk powered by the same Server it’s backing up.
Then again, you’re not providing much info, anything further needs to be asked twice so I have to guess stuff…
How did you test the restore of the machine the next day if you only now installed the “Restore Data” module?
More unclarity…
You are aware that the option to restore an older backup only exists AFTER you’ve installed “Restore Data” on the machine you are backing up?
I’m not talking about the “staging host” you’re “testing”, I’m talking about the machine which has a lost mail issue!
I’m trying to verify if you have a working, tested backup on that very machine, but I’m not getting any real answers.
If there are language issues, maybe try using Deepl… They generally do a comprenhesive translation.