[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

Please upgrade to the current version of duplicity. This will assure that any bugs fixed since your release are available and may fix your issue. NOTE: This applies especially to duplicity versions between 0.7.03 and 0.7.14 inclusive. There was a fix in 0.7.15 that reduced memory usage

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

Hey guys, I don't think this is a solution but it didn't produce the error so here it goes: 1. created a folder and named it "backups" in the home directory 2. changed the Storage location of the backup to the "backups" directory 3. created the backup and no error :) Previously my storage

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

** Attachment added: "The feed back from the terminal when starting to backup from there." https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1217959/+attachment/5236988/+files/Screenshot_20190208_160742.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

Working at a fresh install of Kubuntu 18.04.1 LTS in February 2019 - at a Lenovo X220, with a i5 processor and a 1 TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD, together with a 4 TB external HD, "WD My Passport". However, I still stumble upon the same bug. However, I seemingly manage to work around it by acting as

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

** Attachment added: "The (first time) backup-process is still ongoing." https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1217959/+attachment/5236989/+files/Screenshot_20190208_160642.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

Updated to latest version but still got that error ii deja-dup 39~bzr1796~u amd64Back up your files ii duplicity 0.7.17-0ubun amd64encrypted bandwidth-efficient bac my .cache/deja-dup symlinked to another folder P.S. is it possible to include cache location option

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

** Changed in: deja-dup Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217959 Title: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

Sorry for ignoring this for so long! I've got a patch in master for this and a few related symlink-restore issues. Fix should be in the 38.3 release. https://git.launchpad.net/deja- dup/commit/?id=569ec2b552122025c4636f95fd956df965f70c9b ** Changed in: deja-dup Status: Confirmed => Fix

Re: [Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

I tend to avoid bind-mounts because they confuse disk usage calculation programs. What I ended up doing was use "usermod" to set the home to canonical path. deja-dup works now, and surprisingly I haven't notice any other app break (so far). 2018-03-04 21:18 GMT+01:00 Vej

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

@Marcin For a workaround you can try mounting with --bind instead of symlinking. If you do, please let us now if this worked for you. Best Vej -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217959

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

Kirk, I think you missed my update #95, which explains the root cause. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217959 Title: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not

Re: [Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

Deja calls the duplicity command. Monitors the progress and checks that it finishes. Try getting the underlying command and manually calling duplicity. When I last looked at this bug duplicity was performing the backup job to completion. Backups we're ok. Just this error coming from deja.

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

I'm wondering whether something like wrapping the Path.build_filename call located in libdeja/OperationVerify.vala:connect_to_job in a realpath() would be enough to fix this issue. Unfortunately I don't know vala well enough to test this idea. -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

vej, it affects me as well, using 34.3-1 Attaching the log. In there one can see: DUPLICITY: ERROR 19 DUPLICITY: . home/porridge/.cache/deja-dup/metadata not found in archive - no files restored. And once I think about it, it makes sense, since /home is a symlink to /srv/home, and the

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

Still affects me. I have symlinked Deja Dup cache deja-dup -> /media/username/Space/.deja-dup-cache -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217959 Title: 'metadata' file not found when

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

Hello Jared. Thanks for letting us know about this. Can you please add the file /tmp/deja-dup.log after running the line below and replicating the problem ? This is an old bug so a new log might be helpful for us to figure out what went wrong here: DEJA_DUP_DEBUG=1 deja-dup --backup | tail

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

I just hit this bug. I recently put in a symlink for my ~/.cache directory. My deja dup version is as follows: ~/.cache$ apt list --installed | grep deja WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts. deja-dup/xenial-updates,now 34.2-0ubuntu1.1 amd64

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

Reopening. I can easily believe we don't handle a symlinked cache file well. ** Changed in: deja-dup Status: Expired => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217959 Title:

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

Alright, thank you. My apologies for the accidentally inflating the issue, I was not thinking through my comment much when I posted. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217959 Title:

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

@Dabo Ross: Your problem seems to be different from this one, so a new bug report is a good idea. Btw: Please refrain from exaggerating "a symlink set for ~/.cache/deja- dup gets deleted" to "deletion of symbolic links", because the handling of ~/.cache/deja-dup is a bit special (unless you see

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

I thought this had been fixed, but I ran into something else very similar today: When I had a symlink set for ~/.cache/deja-dup, deja-dup actually _deleted_ this symlink, and still filled up my home folder. I ran out of space and the backup failed. Perhaps this is why it was succeeding for me,

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

[Expired for Déjà Dup because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: deja-dup Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217959 Title:

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

[Expired for duplicity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: duplicity (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

@Ricardo If your log does still contain an line "DUPLICITY: ERROR 19" it might be helpful here. Otherwise I would think, that you are facing another bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

@Vej I just saw this error this morning, but on my second attempt using the command you provided to get a log file there was no error. However, upon inspection of the log file I can see that it didn't process all "volumes". It was supposed to process 258 volumes, but the log file ends on volume

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

When this last occurred for me, it happened after the backup was complete, or at least after the backup had been running for a while. I'm unsure if it was during, before or after the 'verification' phase. Just now, when running the command you posted, the error did not occur. I haven't had this

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

@Xwarman: Please be aware that you disabled one of the major checks to ensure a successful backup. @all: I am wondering if this happens before or after the backup taking place? A more recent output of the file /tmp/deja-dup.log after running the appropriate line below and replicating the problem

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

Setting this to Incomplete, because I am unable to verify without the information requested above. Please reset to "Confirmed" after providing this information. ** Changed in: deja-dup Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

See Post#77 for the workaround, and yes, this will make it all work -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217959 Title: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

That bug is now over 3 years old and still existent. In the default backup software of ubuntu... I... am just wondering. Well. Can I still use it and are the backups usable anyway? Can I trust them with that error? Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

I've worked around this by using a bind mount instead of a symlink. Something like 'sudo mount --rbind /run/media/daboross/external/deja- dup-cache ~/.cache/deja-dup' works. While I do have to re-do this every time I mount the external drive and start a backup, it at least works. If you also do a

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

I have this exact same problem. I tried creating an empty metadata file so it can write over it, but that didn't work. I decided to symlink only the folder inside '.cache/deja-dup', the folder named 6724d3f170e0390931977a130c2b7632. I thought by leaving the deja-dup folder, it will be able to

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

I am seeing this on Ubuntu 16.10. ~/.cache/deja-dup/ is on the /home filesystem. $ dpkg -l duplicity deja-dup Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

$ ls ~/.cache/deja-dup/ 4d801e19c0c7ed7e0ced1c98fe748294 tmp -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217959 Title: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

I am affected by this bug with a current Xubuntu 16.04 LTS. My ~/.cache is a symlink to a different SSD/partition if this matters. Since ~/.cache/deja-dup filled up my root parition (before symlinking it), I had to manually delete ~/.cache/deja-dup and the files in the backup destination. Maybe

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

** Changed in: duplicity (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217959 Title: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: duplicity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217959 Title:

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

@leon-arundell What do you mean by "I also tried Kenneth Loafman's suggestion of updating duplicity, but the installation instructions didn't seem to work."? Do you mean to say that you couldn't add PPA, update the cache and upgrade Duplicity? Or do you mean that after upgrading Duplicity,

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

I tried Rob Frohne's suggestion of adding ~/.cache.deja-dup to my "Folders to ignore" list, and it has worked at least temporarily. I also tried Kenneth Loafman's suggestion of updating duplicity, but the installation instructions didn't seem to work. -- You received this bug notification

Re: [Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

Go here and add the repository to your list. apt-get update / upgrade will bring in the latest version which is a lot newer than the one you have. 0.6.21 is at least 3 years old and has been superseded. On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 3:46 AM,

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

Please upgrade the status of this bug to "High." It has occurred several times on my Ubuntu 14.04 system in the past two months, and means that I cannot reliably use Duplicity to do incremental backups. The main alternatives seem to only offer time- and space- consuming complete backups. -- You

[Bug 1217959] Re: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup"

** Also affects: duplicity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217959 Title: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could