Re: [Duplicity-talk] rebuild local index from remote backup?

[Morgan Read]

Thanks
M

On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 14:57, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Sounds like a good plan.
>
> ...Ken
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 8:38 AM Morgan Read <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you Ken,
>> That's heartening to know.
>>
>> If I can just clarify what has happened:
>> 1) remote backup removed from remote location
>> 2) local index and manifest not removed from local location re remote backup
>> 3) duplicity cleaning up the local cache and reloading what it needs
>> from the remote - that is, nothing in the remote so nothing needed in
>> the local cache so local cache is eaten...!
>> And, what will happen:
>> a) remote backup returned to remote location
>> b) local index and manifest eaten and empty
>> c) duplicity will clean up the local cache (nothing to do) and reload
>> what it needs from the remote location - that is, all things should be
>> sweet in the rose garden once I've let duplicity do it's thing on the
>> remote backup
>>
>> I will take a back up of the remote before pressing the go button, but
>> I think from what you say everything is okay?
>>
>> Regards
>> Morgan
>>
>> On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 12:33, Kenneth Loafman via Duplicity-talk
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Morgan,
>> >
>> > Assuming your remote is intact, duplicity will clean up the cache and 
>> > reload what it needs from the remote, so as far as I can tell, duplicity 
>> > is doing what it should be doing.
>> >
>> > ...Thanks,
>> > ...Ken
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 1:14 AM Morgan Read via Duplicity-talk 
>> > <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello List
>> >>
>> >> If you would like to miss out the background and jump straight to my
>> >> question, it's the fifth paragraph down...
>> >>
>> >> I've recently moved my backup.  After following a few dead links to an
>> >> elusive 'howto' I tracked it down at the web archive - so, for
>> >> reference and others that follow, here's a live link:
>> >> https://web.archive.org/web/20140306044937/http://blog.linux2go.dk/2011/01/20/moving-duplicity-and-hence-deja-dup-backups
>> >>
>> >> Following the above - about half way down the page - is the formula to
>> >> calculate the hash for a folder name for any given location.  So, far
>> >> so good.  I was using a different location uri (ssh to my home server)
>> >> and couldn't bring myself to work out the translation between one uri
>> >> form and another.
>> >>
>> >> I figured it would be more simply to have deja-dup do it for me - so,
>> >> I moved all the files from my back-up location to a temp remote
>> >> directory and all my files from the local directory named after the
>> >> hash of the uri of the backup location to a temp local directory -
>> >> just for safety.  Then had deja-dup do a back up to the new remote
>> >> location.  All went well, remote directory created and local directory
>> >> created named after a hash of the remote.  Now, all I had to do is
>> >> replace the contents of my new directories with the contents of my
>> >> remote directories.
>> >>
>> >> Unfortunately, it was too late in the evening by the time I got to
>> >> that stage - and I forgot to move back my remote back-up to the new
>> >> directory location.  So, running my first back up...  Yup, deja-dup/
>> >> duplicity started to eat my local manifests and indexes that I'd just
>> >> returned to my newly created local directory - because, of course, it
>> >> no longer matched the empty remote location I was backing up to...
>> >>
>> >> So, my question, how do I/ can I rebuild my local directory to make
>> >> useable my back up again?
>> >>
>> >> Many thanks for reading my story of wow!
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>> >> Morgan Read
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