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

[edgar . soldin]

On 14.08.2024 16:04, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 7:17 AM edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk
> <duplicity-talk@nongnu.org> wrote:
> > hey Jeffrey,
> >
> > comments inline
> >
> > On 14.08.2024 06:30, Jeffrey Walton via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > does the old 0.8.12 installation still exist and list backups?
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > looks like it does not find any backups. please post a file listing of 
> > "sftp://<redacted>/". if it's big you may pastebin it.
>
> This was my mistake. I did not specify the remote directory:
>
>      "sftp://<redacted>/<remote_dir>"
>
> (It is a gap in our internal documentation for a restore).

is it? would you mind to point me to the documentation in question so we may 
fix it please. ..ede