I tend to avoid bind-mounts because they confuse disk usage calculation programs. What I ended up doing was use "usermod" to set the home to canonical path. deja-dup works now, and surprisingly I haven't notice any other app break (so far).
2018-03-04 21:18 GMT+01:00 Vej <1217...@bugs.launchpad.net>: > @Marcin For a workaround you can try mounting with --bind instead of > symlinking. > > If you do, please let us now if this worked for you. > > Best > > Vej > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217959 > > Title: > 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore > ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup" > > Status in Déjà Dup: > Confirmed > Status in duplicity package in Ubuntu: > Incomplete > > Bug description: > Linux release: Ubuntu 13.04 64bit > Kernel: 3.8.0-29-generic > Python: 2.7.4 > Deja Dup: 26.0 > Duplicity: 0.6.21 > > Hi. I've tried to do my monthly or so backup recently, but Deja Dup > crashed after trying to backup a very large file (VM disk with Windows > 7, 50GB or so). I tried to do another one, this time excluding all my > large VM's. However, now when trying to do a backup I'm getting the > following error a few seconds after inputting my encryption password: > > Could not restore ‘/home/tom/.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found > in backup > > I've tried reinstalling both deja-dup and duplicity, purging > duplicity, deleting deja-dup and duplicity from /home/tom/.cache, > deleting the backup files on the external drive, deleting it's config > as described here http://askubuntu.com/questions/53980/how-to-delete- > all-the-settings-for-deja-dup. I know (well, I have some evidence > supporting this) that the drive itself isn't faulty as I managed to > backup my old laptop to the drive using duplicity and it worked fine > (Fedora 19, deja dup 26.0 I think). I will upload the appropriate logs > momentarily. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1217959/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217959 Title: 'metadata' file not found when creating backup ("Could not restore ‘/home/user /.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1217959/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
