I lost most of my data, backup cannot restore.

anon02 · 09-13-2011, 03:17 PM

I did a very stupid thing recently. You may remember me trying to speed up my netbooks booting speed, and after a long time I found something called Elementary OS. I downloaded it about 2 hours ago, and backed up my netbook...

When I installed it, it all went fine, and I went to restore from the backup...

It restored my Documents and Images. That is it. All of my videos, programs etc, were backed up yet I cannot restore. I was wondering if there was a way to retrieve files from a Deja Dup backup without using the software. I am planning to go back to Ubuntu 11.04 tommorow, as it has what I want, but before I do I am trying to get my data back. Any tips? Also, has anyone got any tips on how to stop me from moving distro. This is the second time this has happened.

harry edwards · 09-13-2011, 04:36 PM

Have you tried putting the question on the Deja Dup questions page? https://answers.launchpad.net/deja-dup

etech3 · 09-13-2011, 05:04 PM

You may want to restore the ubuntu then do a restore of your data.

You may want to take a look at mondoarchive or g4lin next time.

syg00 · 09-13-2011, 07:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThatPerson

IIt restored my Documents and Images. That is it. All of my videos, programs etc, were backed up yet I cannot restore. I was wondering if there was a way to retrieve files from a Deja Dup backup without using the software.

Perhaps read the doco ?.
Start here and read links of interest. "How it works" " Help" would probably be good.
The latter has instructions for situations like this. I don't generally like self-confessed "simple" tools that hide what is being done, but at least this uses known tools.
Did you use a "full" backup during the restore, or just an incremental (note: I've not used this tool) ?.

anon02 · 09-14-2011, 12:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by harry edwards

Have you tried putting the question on the Deja Dup questions page? https://answers.launchpad.net/deja-dup

Nope, but I probably will now. Thanks for the tip!

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

Perhaps read the doco ?.
Start here and read links of interest. "How it works" " Help" would probably be good.
The latter has instructions for situations like this. I don't generally like self-confessed "simple" tools that hide what is being done, but at least this uses known tools.
Did you use a "full" backup during the restore, or just an incremental (note: I've not used this tool) ?.

I used incremental, but as it is a 500GB hard disk and I only have a 20GB netbook, it has not removed any other backups. Next time I will probably tar the home folder and put that on the hard disk.

Quote:

Originally Posted by etech3

You may want to restore the ubuntu then do a restore of your data.

You may want to take a look at mondoarchive or g4lin next time.

I sneakily set Ubuntu to install when I went to sleep, and I am going to see if it was an issue with Elementary OS.