The disaster that I experienced earlier this week continues to baffle me
and two new problems have emerged.
The first is that, as related in my last post, I was unable to restore
the files directly to my /home directory, because Deja Dup said that I
didn't have permission to do that. As also mentioned, I restored the
most recent backup, which was an incremental, to a local directory
within /home and copied the /home/terry/.config directory from the
backup over the running system. This doesn't appear to have had any
effect whatsoever, so I tried several other folders from /config but
still no apparent change. I've now restored the last full backup to the
alternative location, but it's about 6 weeks old, so I'm a bit concerned
about the effect of overwriting the whole contents of /home. If I do it
while the system is running, then I suspect there will be all sorts of
issues with file attributes, particularly time stamps. If I use a
bootable distro, then I am equally concerned about file ownership issues.
Any suggestions?
I am talking to the developer of Deja Dup via the Gnome GitLab Help
forum, but I think my issues (apart from the permissions problem during
restore) were originally caused by the changes in Kubuntu 26/04, rather
than Deja Dup.
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