This is getting almost as boring as the interminable 'Return to' movies
implied in the subject line. So the saga continues:
Since I last posted on this matter, I've had replies from both Ask
Ubuntu and the Deja Dup author. Both responses said mainly the same
things, the response on Ask Ubuntu re-iterated the advice given by Ralph
some days ago to create a local directory and link it to the SMB
location. At the time, I had managed to get access to the archive by
copying it to a higher level directory and using that, but was unable to
get the settings file (a binary in /.config/dconf) to provide the right
solution.
It was at this point that I decided to carry out my threat to delete
/home and reinstall Kubuntu completely. This I did without error, apart
from the fact that the Chromium browser is now only available on snap,
and the current version appears to be broken ;-(
I then tried to use Deja Dup Backup to access my backups again, with
much the same results, except I appeared to have lost access to the new
SMB location where I had copied my archives to!!!
It was at that point that I decided to try the linked local directory
solution, as suggested by Ralph and Ask Ubuntu, but so far without
success. Here is a precis of what has happened to date. I used an AI
generated page as a guide and created a suitable mount point with:
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/Optiplex_Backups/
(Does the mount pointhave to be in /mnt or can it be in my /home directory?)
I then installed cif-utils as detailed in the link and tried to mount
the remote location in the local directory:
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=TerryJColes,password=********
//readynas/TerryJColes/Bac
kups/Optiplex/Duplicity/OptiPlex
mount: //readynas/TerryJColes/Backups/Optiplex/Duplicity/OptiPlex: can't
find in /etc/fstab.
(The password has been obfuscated for obvious reasons, but it is correct.)
I then edited fstab and added:
//readynas/TerryJColes/Backups/Optiplex/Duplicity/OptiPlex//mnt/ cifs
credentials=/mnt/Optiplex_Backups//
credentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0
but still got the same error.
Can anyone tell me what I have done wrong?
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