As a forward pointer to people who urgently need to recover data from their existing sbackup backups, fortunately, the sbackup backend simply uses tar, so with a few steps you can still do that. (You can do it gui-wise, but it will be faster with some basic commandline stuff.) No time now to give a detailed how-to, but these are the steps: 1) locate your backup directory 2) find the latest/newest dir that ends in '.ful' (this was a full snapshot). Untar the files.tgz archive that is in there (refer to tar manpage for how to do partial extract). 3) go through all of the newer '.inc' directories (these are your incremental updates), and untar all of them on top of the previously extracted files.
You will need some extra work for files that were deleted after the latest '.ful'. I'll see if I can still install from source, will report later if succesffull. P.s., I've tried deja-dup (duplicity), but that is dreadfully slow. Sbackup does 88G in 20 minutes or so (using pigz for parallel compression), deja-dup took more than 4 hours! Not an option for me. Also, config options are severely limited (like include/exclude on file pattern, smart cleanup options). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1768648 Title: Bionic obsoletes sbackup, makes restore impossible To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/1768648/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
