Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ubuntuone-client
My primary hard drive is starting to fail, with a separate partition
picking up bad sectors. So I have gotten a new hard drive and started
transferring data from the old one over. For a few reasons I did not
want to copy my entire home folder over and wanted a fresh install and
home folder. Upon consulting the ubuntuone guys on IRC it confirmed that
all i should have to do is copy my ~/.local/share/ubuntuone and
~/Ubuntu\ One folder over to my new drive and log in.
At first it was suggested to log in to u1 once and then log out and
disconnect and then start copying the data. I ran u1sdtool -d and
u1sdtool -q to stop it. But as soon as I started copying the Ubuntu\ One
folder the u1 client connected and started syncing the data I was just
writing to it's folder. I think this is where things went wrong
I stopped the copying, disconnected u1, again and this time deleted my
key in "passwords and keyrings" , as per suggestion on IRC, which will
then not allow the client to connect by itself. I then deleted the
ubuntuone and Ubuntu\ One folders and started the copy from the original
PC again. After the copy completed I logged into the client. At this
point the client just stated that it's synchronizing, the logs showed
that all my files were being unlinked.
It was then suggested that I stop the client again and run: u1sdtool
--rescan-from-scratch="". This didn't make a difference. I then left the
PC overnight to do it's rescan. This morning when I checked my files on
the cloud server all the data had been deleted and my pc had started re-
uploading my 25GB's worth of data. This is a big problem for me, it took
a very long time to get that data on the server in the first place and
having to re-upload it all and then let that re-download back down again
to other machines is not feasible, I don't have the speed of the
available bandwidth, it will cost too much.
I would like to know if my cloud storage could be rolled back a few days
and then assist me in correctly transferring the data from the old hard
drive to the new drive so that it just logs in and sees all data is
safe.
This brings me back to a much sorely needed feature of being able to do
local LAN syncs like dropbox does. I find myself in this situation a few
times were I require that feature. I understand that, sure for someone
who has 2GB of data in the cloud re-downloading that is not a problem,
but this is a commercial service and will be used for commercial
purposes and it should be expected that users will have a lot of data in
the cloud and having a lan sync feature will be gold. With that feature,
in theory, a newly installed pc would be able to instantly sync all data
via lan just by logging into u1 for the 1st time. All my data, contacts
notes etc migrated to a new pc via lan sync, lightning fast.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
My U1 account name is psypher246[at]gmail.com
Thanks
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: ubuntuone-client 1.6.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 3 10:29:40 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_ZA:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntuone-client
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: ubuntuone-client (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Assignee: Manuel de la Pena (mandel)
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug natty running-unity
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backup/move of ubuntuone folders failed and deleted all cloud data
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