Re: Restore problem deja dup
On Sunday, 18 December 2016 15:18:05 PYST tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 02:18:25PM +0100, Aquarius wrote:
> > I re-installed Debian Jessie after making a backup of my home directory.
>
> Could you describe this "dejadup" a bit more? How is it supposed to
> do its thing? Is it saving your home dir or more in the system?
>
> > Maybe the hostname of the new installation is different from before.
> > When trying to restore my backup I get an error saying:
> > "Error creating directory. Permission denied."
>
> Hm. Still a bit unspecific. Where is it trying to create the directory?
> What directory is it trying to create? (I'd guess either your whole
> home directory or some directory below it).
>
> Is dejadup supposed to restore up your user, only the contents of your home
> dir, or more?
>
> The error message itself leads to the guess that the new host name
> isn't the problem. But this is just a very vague guess right now.
>
> > I would think the to be created directory is on my new system. But I
> > really do not know how to make the home directory available to deja dup.
>
> Have you already set up your user?
And mind you that not the username is important but the user-ID
Are you restoring to the same user-ID?
> How do you invoke the actions to
> do a restore via dejadup (sorry, I haven't any clue what that is).
https://launchpad.net/deja-dup
But there is indeed not enough info to pinpoint the problem.
>
> regards
> -- tomás
regard
Eike
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