Public bug reported:
Following an unrelated crisis on my new laptop (okay I'll admit it: I
forgot my drive encryption passphrase), I took steps while it was still
fully functional to make a backup of ~ for later restore. Fortunately
the tools guided me into a backup of /home ignoring the Trash and my
Downloads directory. I wrote it to an SD card that had plenty of space,
verified the install, did a test restore to a temporary directory, and
then was satisfied enough to flatten the machine.
After my first boot, I launched the backups tool and ran a full restore
from this backup, putting the files in their normal locations.
At this point, Unity INSANED. I ended up with a desktop that consisted
of nautilus, the default wallpaper, and not much else. I ended up going
into a vc with Ctrl+Alt+F1, but couldn't find any obvious culprits. No
amount of logging out and in, or of rebooting could save me from this
situation.
Either the tools should be more cautious about restoring dangling
symlinks, files being watched by dbus et al, and permissions races
(Yeah, you'll have trouble writing that file into the directory you
faithfully restored as 0555. You have the technology to avoid this
problem), or it should warn the user against doing a full restore of
/home like that. I ended up restoring to a secondary location and
selectively pulling files into place again, in the end.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: duplicity 0.6.23-1ubuntu4.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-29.52-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu May 29 23:17:15 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-29 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: duplicity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: duplicity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug package-from-proposed trusty
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1324710
Title:
The Ubuntu Backups tool isn't helpful for restoring your home
directory
Status in “duplicity” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Following an unrelated crisis on my new laptop (okay I'll admit it: I
forgot my drive encryption passphrase), I took steps while it was
still fully functional to make a backup of ~ for later restore.
Fortunately the tools guided me into a backup of /home ignoring the
Trash and my Downloads directory. I wrote it to an SD card that had
plenty of space, verified the install, did a test restore to a
temporary directory, and then was satisfied enough to flatten the
machine.
After my first boot, I launched the backups tool and ran a full
restore from this backup, putting the files in their normal locations.
At this point, Unity INSANED. I ended up with a desktop that
consisted of nautilus, the default wallpaper, and not much else. I
ended up going into a vc with Ctrl+Alt+F1, but couldn't find any
obvious culprits. No amount of logging out and in, or of rebooting
could save me from this situation.
Either the tools should be more cautious about restoring dangling
symlinks, files being watched by dbus et al, and permissions races
(Yeah, you'll have trouble writing that file into the directory you
faithfully restored as 0555. You have the technology to avoid this
problem), or it should warn the user against doing a full restore of
/home like that. I ended up restoring to a secondary location and
selectively pulling files into place again, in the end.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: duplicity 0.6.23-1ubuntu4.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-29.52-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu May 29 23:17:15 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-29 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: duplicity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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