[Duplicity-talk] Last full backup: none during a restore

[Jeffrey Walton]

Hi Everyone,

I need to restore from a backup. The backup was taken with Duplicity
0.8.12 (Ubuntu 22). The restore is happening with Duplicity 0.8.22
(Debian 12). The server has about 3 to 5 years of backups. Full
backups happen every 2 months to manage server-side storage.

When I attempt to perform the restore, I am getting:

# duplicity restore --file-to-restore "/" "sftp://<redacted>/" "/tmp/restore"
Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
Last full backup date: none

Next, I try to list what is on our backup server:

# duplicity collection-status "sftp://<redacted>"
Last full backup date: none
Collection Status
-----------------
Connecting with backend: BackendWrapper
Archive dir: /root/.cache/duplicity/68e34b6d286542746c57716f4d2a55ea

How can I get duplicity to recognize what is on our backup server?

Jeff