Re: [Nssbackup-team] [Question #140592]: restore/revert produces only empty folders
Question #140592 on sbackup changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/140592 Description changed to: Hello, I have read https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/130045 and I have the same problem but the provided solution is not working for me. Whatever button I click (revert/restore/revert to/ restore to), I only get empty folders with eventually empty sub-folders. If I do the same with a single file, the file is correctly restored. I can see in the .tar.gz file that my folders should not be empty. I have french version running 0.11.3 on Ubuntu Maverick. I am trying to restore files as root (from Applications-Outils Systemes Ubuntu main menu) UPDATE: This is not a question, it's confirmed as a bug. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbackup/+bug/709338 -- You received this question notification because you are a member of Simple Backup Maintainers, which is an answer contact for sbackup. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team Post to : nssbackup-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Nssbackup-team] [Question #140592]: restore/revert produces only empty folders
Question #140592 on sbackup changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/140592 Description changed to: Hello, I have read https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/130045 and I have the same problem but the provided solution is not working for me. Whatever button I click (revert/restore/revert to/ restore to), I only get empty folders with eventually empty sub-folders. If I do the same with a single file, the file is correctly restored. I can see in the .tar.gz file that my folders should not be empty. I have french version running 0.11.3 on Ubuntu Maverick. I am trying to restore files as root (from Applications-Outils Systemes Ubuntu main menu) UPDATE: This is not a question, it's confirmed as a bug in version 0.11.3, fixed in 0.11.4. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbackup/+bug/709338 -- You received this question notification because you are a member of Simple Backup Maintainers, which is an answer contact for sbackup. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team Post to : nssbackup-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Nssbackup-team] [Question #140592]: restore/revert produces only empty folders
Question #140592 on Simple Backup changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/140592 Linked to bug: #709338 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/709338 Restore/revert of non-toplevel items produces only empty folders -- You received this question notification because you are a member of Simple Backup Maintainers, which is an answer contact for Simple Backup. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team Post to : nssbackup-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Nssbackup-team] [Question #140592]: restore/revert produces only empty folders
Question #140592 on Simple Backup changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/140592 Status: Open = Answered Jean-Peer Lorenz proposed the following answer: I've digged into it and found that your issue is a bug. The problem stems from tar's commandline option '--occurrence' which behaves inconsistently. It does work if a top-level folder is being extracted but does not work for other directories. Unfortunately, pre-release test didn't cover such cases. Sorry for any trouble. I've filed a bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbackup/+bug/709338 and will release a fix ASAP. Thanks to all for choosing sbackup and helping to make it better. -- You received this question notification because you are a member of Simple Backup Maintainers, which is an answer contact for Simple Backup. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team Post to : nssbackup-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Nssbackup-team] [Question #140592]: restore/revert produces only empty folders
Question #140592 on Simple Backup changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/140592 Status: Answered = Invalid Jean-Peer Lorenz changed the question status: Changing status to 'Invalid' because this issue is actually a bug. Please refer to the linked bug report from now. -- You received this question notification because you are a member of Simple Backup Maintainers, which is an answer contact for Simple Backup. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team Post to : nssbackup-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Nssbackup-team] [Question #140592]: restore/revert produces only empty folders
Question #140592 on Simple Backup changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/140592 Status: Open = Needs information Jean-Peer Lorenz requested for more information: Hello Julien, is there a debug/hidden mode like a verbose one ? You can enable 'debug' output level within the configuration gui on a per-profile basis. This will print a lot of helpful information into the logfile. How to you invoke sbackup? Could you describe the structure of your file tree you're storing? I really want to help! It's working perfectly for me...so, I've currently no clue. Did you specified a kind of test profile containing only a small set of files and directories? Does such test case work as expected. I'm looking forward to your outcomes, logs...Thanks. -- You received this question notification because you are a member of Simple Backup Maintainers, which is an answer contact for Simple Backup. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team Post to : nssbackup-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Nssbackup-team] [Question #140592]: restore/revert produces only empty folders
Question #140592 on Simple Backup changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/140592 Status: Open = Answered Jean-Peer Lorenz proposed the following answer: Hello, thanks for using sbackup. I don't fully understand your problem. It is, of course, possible to restore directories and files from a snapshot! I've tried it 5 min ago in order to confirm that it does work ;-) I'll explain it: Given you have a set of snapshots: full one and several incremental one. Files are only stored when they have changed, i.e. the latest incremental snapshot will only contain modified and new files as well as the directory structure. The graphical UI provides 4 buttons: -- | Restore | Restore as | |-| | Revert | Revert as | -- As already explained in https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+faq/1325 there is a different behaviour between Restore and Revert. Restore extracts files and directories contained in the *selected* snapshot. In contrast, Revert extracts files and directories from the selected snapshot *and* its predecessors in reverse order. That is, if you select the latest incremental snapshot (lets say it only contains unmodified files) and click 'Restore' it will restore only empty folders. If you click on 'Revert' it will restore all files and directories in reverse order. Same holds for 'restore as' and 'revert as'. HTH. -- You received this question notification because you are a member of Simple Backup Maintainers, which is an answer contact for Simple Backup. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team Post to : nssbackup-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Nssbackup-team] [Question #140592]: restore/revert produces only empty folders
Question #140592 on Simple Backup changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/140592 olyerickson posted a new comment: Jean-Peer, thanks for your quick response! In my case I only make (nightly) full backups, so if I understand what you're saying there should be no real difference. In any case, doing Restore As... and Revert As... achieved the same result --- only empty folders. Maybe I'm missing something; here's what I've been trying to do: * Mount backup drive on second system * Use SBackup config to ensure SBackup sees the drive * Use SBackup restore to Revert As... a full snapshot of e.g. my /home to a directory on the second system e.g. /home/lifeboat At this point I see only folders... I can then select and revert individual files in the tree, but that gets really old for thousands of files :( You received this question notification because you are a member of Simple Backup Maintainers, which is an answer contact for Simple Backup. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team Post to : nssbackup-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Nssbackup-team] [Question #140592]: restore/revert produces only empty folders
Question #140592 on Simple Backup changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/140592 Status: Answered = Open Julien is still having a problem: Hello Jean-Peer, In my case, the backup I am trying to restore (/revet) is also a full backup. I understand your remarks about incremental backups : it only contains different files from the last full backup and in this case, a restore action restores effectivly only the files really contained in the archive. This is not our case here : I want to restore from a full backup and not an incremental one. As I suppose that I (and the other people here) am in a special case, I would like to give you more information but I dont know how : is there a debug/hidden mode like a verbose one ? maybe we are using external programms (like 'find' or 'ls' bins) to sbackup which make that the list of files contain only empty folders ? How can I provide more information to you ? -- You received this question notification because you are a member of Simple Backup Maintainers, which is an answer contact for Simple Backup. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team Post to : nssbackup-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Nssbackup-team] [Question #140592]: restore/revert produces only empty folders
Question #140592 on Simple Backup changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/140592 Tiriz posted a new comment: Same here. Files can be reverted one by one... but what if I want to revert a complete directory architecture? Please help! I need to revert those tons of pictures placed in different backups! There is no way I can restore each one manually!!! -- You received this question notification because you are a member of Simple Backup Maintainers, which is an answer contact for Simple Backup. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team Post to : nssbackup-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Nssbackup-team] [Question #140592]: restore/revert produces only empty folders
New question #140592 on Simple Backup: https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/140592 Hello, I have read https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/130045 and I have the same problem but the provided solution is not working for me. Whatever button I click (revert/restore/revert to/ restore to), I only get empty folders with eventually empty sub-folders. If I do the same with a single file, the file is correctly restored. I can see in the .tar.gz file that my folders should not be empty. I have french version running 0.11.3 on Ubuntu Maverick. I am trying to restore files as root (from Applications-Outils Systemes Ubuntu main menu) -- You received this question notification because you are a member of Simple Backup Maintainers, which is an answer contact for Simple Backup. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team Post to : nssbackup-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
