** Changed in: deja-dup (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: deja-dup (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
** Summary changed:
- File restore is completely abandoned due to a single invalid backup file
+ Have an option to continue with only partly restore in case of error.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079555
Title:
Have an option to continue with only partly restore in case of error.
Status in deja-dup package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
While restoring files from a backup, Deja Dup failed with a hash
mismatch for one of the (many) difftar.gz files. It showed an error
message, and when I closed that error message Deja Dup exited. As a
result, Deja Dup abandoned the entire operation, leaving only the
files that had been restored by this point. The application provided
no means for solving the problem. A screenshot of the error message is
attached.
At a bare minimum, the error message should try to communicate which
files it can't restore as a result of the error. Telling me which
difftar.gz file is corrupted is as good as giving me a core dump at
this point. In my case, I _did_ get back all the files I wanted, but
only by painstakingly restoring individual subdirectories and keeping
a careful list of which files triggered which errors.
Deja Dup should offer to continue, skipping whatever it needs to skip.
Additionally, it would be nice if the application provided some means
for working around the issue (for example, looking for earlier
versions of the lost files), but that's probably for another bug
report.
"Close" should be labelled "Abort" to communicate the fact that it
will drop everything and probably not do what you want to have happen
if you were interested in restoring files from a backup.
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