Hi Terry
I don't know Deja Dup so can not answer your question directly, but here
is a suggestion (there a lot of if's)
If you can access the backup location from another machine and...
If the backup files are saved in the same normal format as they are on
your main PC (e.g you can read the files)....
Can you simply reinstall Kubuntu and then copy the files from your
backup that you needs??
Not as straight forward and doing a backup recovery I agree
I use Timeshift which takes snapshots and saves them to a separate hard
disk with it own backup partition, then when I re-install, upgrade or
move to a different distro, once installed I simply copy over what I
needed from the backups I have.
If it is any consolation, I have played with partitions before and
actually deleted the wrong partition, failed to boot and no backup!! I
feel the pain and embarrassment.
Regards
Tim H
On 20/09/2026 15:52, Terry Coles wrote:
Hi,
First of all a salutary lesson; I was looking at my free swap space
this morning when I realised that instead of the partition being 15
GB, it was 15 MB!! This must have occurred when I did a clean
installation of Kubuntu some time ago. (in my own defence, I find the
KDE partition Manager somewhat confusing when it comes to displaying
the size of partitions, because it only displays bytes.
Anyway, I realised that this could well be the problem that I've been
experiencing for some time, with certain news sites slowing the
browser to a stop and eventually forcing a restart. (I reported this
on this list some time ago.)
Not a problem, I thought. I'll simply shrink the adjacent partition
and increase the swap. However, the swap partition is on my /home
partition and the whole thing took several hours. Furthermore, an
error occured when moving the home data and although I can see the
folders, some of the hidden ones appear to be missing and
unfortunately the most important one is /home/terry.config. To add to
my woes the configuration for the Backup program, which I use in
Kubuntu is nowhere to be seen. (This is the Backup program that is a
front end to Deja Dup, not the identically named one that Ubuntu
installs by default.)
Not a problem, I thought, I'll simply point Backup to restore from the
smb: server on my network, which has held my backups for years now. I
can seen the backup files at:
smb://TerryJColes@readynas/TerryJColes/Backups/Optiplex/Duplicity/OptiPlex/
Unfortunately, the setup interface in DejaDup Backup has changed and I
cannot get it to see the files that I know are there. This has always
been a bit fiddly and I previously had to enter the above path in two
parts to make it work, but no combination of pathnames appears to work
now.
Can anyone suggest how I can define the correct path, or alternatively
how would do it from a terminal (BTW Konsole also seems to be broken,
but Gnome Terminal seems to work).
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Terry Coles
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