Problems in restoring from duplicity backup NS7.5 to NS7.9

[dnutan (Marc)]

Haven’t checked them but had some bookmarked hints:

Restore files from other Server Backup?

Just configure the machine like the old one: same hostname and database configuration, then restore. Please see: http://docs.nethserver.org/en/v7/backup.html#disaster-recovery

Duplicity (CIFS) restoration

Run: /etc/backup-data.hooks/backup-list-files <backup_name> 1 0 $(date +%s -d '20200501') changing backup_name to yours and 20200501 to the date of the backup you want (YYYYMMDD).

Restore Data Backup from 6.9F to 7F

Does somebody have an idea how to restore as much as possible from duplicity backup when a file is missing in the chain? I extract it: for t in duplicity-full.20180215T115508Z.*.difftar.gz; do tar xvf $t; done Then I put the merged deltas to a file called content find multivol_snapshot/ -type f -printf '%h\0' | sort -uz | xargs -0 -n 1 sh -c 'cd "$1" ; cat $(ls | sort -n) > content' spacer Then I copy the content files to a new location: #!/bin/bash while IFS='' read -r line || [[ -n "$lin…

Disaster Recovery issue

First install missing packages from Software Center (probably wizard has reinstalled them automatically) and then restore-data -b backup-data Check also these things before launch command: correct backup configuration with command db backups show usb backup disk mounted correctly (check if you can see duplicity files in /mnt/backup-backup-data/servername - path has been similar to this -). If not I think you have to mount the disk with blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdc where you have to replace …

Restore Backup From A Shared Folder Using Duplicity

It needs a configuration backup file, so it can “show” you the backup. In that file (you should find it your Backup) it can then access the path to your backups - and offer you your backups for restore! Restore the configuration backup first… [Bildschirmfoto 2020-12-18 um 19.26.29]