On 23/09/2026 07:51, Terry Coles wrote:
The only other PC that I have is my Laptop, which already has Deja Dup
Backup installed. However, that is also demonstrating the same
problem, so I think that the error that I experienced during the
partitioning may be a red herring. I have used the restore function
many times over the years and I don't believe in the same fault
developing on two independent PCs at the same time, so I can only
suspect that the updated version of Deja Dup Backup and or the way
that 26/04 handles pathnames to SMB: Servers has changed something
that doesn't agree with my setup. I am currently copying the backup
files to a new location on the NAS (I don't have a big enough local
drive), with a less complicated pathname.
It's been some time since I had occasion to restore files after a
disaster, so I have no idea when the system changed and became broken in
respect of accessing files on my SMB: Server. I have some shortcuts in
Dolphin (Places they call them) and those shortcuts continue to work.
However, if the pathname is copied or typed into the Dolphin Location
bar, it doesn't work! This appears to be the case on my laptop too. As
mentioned above, I copied all of the targz files from their original
location on the NAS to a new location at:
smb://TerryJColes@readynas/Family/Optiplex_Backups/
a process that took nearly four hours because there are nearly 2200
files totaling 404 GB. I originally tried to move them to:
smb://TerryJColes@readynas/Family/Backups/Optiplex, but that wouldn't
work until I reduced the depth of the pathname to the directory detailed
above. I then discovered that I couldn't restore the files to their
original location, because Backup said that I didn't have permission to
do so. I was given no opportunity to enter the password, so I had to
restore the latest backup to a new folder in my home directory (I
believe I will have enough space to replicate the /home data without the
disc filling up). That has now been running for around 2 hrs and I'm
not halfway yet ;-(
I still don't know if I will then be able to restore everything to
normality at the end of this.
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