We are traveling right now so I won't be able to test this for a few weeks. Better if someone else can get to it sooner...thank you!
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 04:45 Brian Murray <br...@ubuntu.com wrote: > Hello ethanay, or anyone else affected, > > Accepted deja-dup into cosmic-proposed. The package will build now and > be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/deja- > dup/38.0-1ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed > repository. > > Please help us by testing this new package. See > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how > to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this > update out to other Ubuntu users. > > If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, > mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from > verification-needed-cosmic to verification-done-cosmic. If it does not > fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the > tag to verification-failed-cosmic. In either case, without details of > your testing we will not be able to proceed. > > Further information regarding the verification process can be found at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in > advance for helping! > > N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) > fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in > -proposed for a minimum of 7 days. > > ** Changed in: deja-dup (Ubuntu Cosmic) > Status: In Progress => Fix Committed > > ** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-cosmic > > ** Changed in: deja-dup (Ubuntu Bionic) > Status: In Progress => Fix Committed > > ** Tags added: verification-needed-bionic > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1804744 > > Title: > Restoring from new location does not find backup files > > Status in Déjà Dup: > Fix Released > Status in deja-dup package in Ubuntu: > Fix Released > Status in deja-dup source package in Bionic: > Fix Committed > Status in deja-dup source package in Cosmic: > Fix Committed > > Bug description: > [Impact] > > When a user tries to restore a backup on a fresh Ubuntu install, deja- > dup will not be able to find their backup at first. > > A workaround is to set the current backup location on the fresh > install to the old backup location. But that's not at all an obvious > path. A user would not normally try that. > > [Test Case] > > 1. Back up some files to a temporary dir. > 2. gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.DejaDup > 3. Try to restore from that temporary dir. > > Notice that deja-dup will complain about waiting for Google Drive to > be set up (even though your backup drive has nothing to do with > Google). > > [Regression Potential] > > The proposed patch mostly affects the restore dialog. Any regressions > would likely be in that flow. > > [Original Report] > > 1. I back up my computer to my external hard drive > 2. I reinstall my new distro > 3. I install deja-dup and duplicity > 4. I open deja-dup, and select restore > 5. I select my external hard drive and the restore directory > 6. Deja-dup fails with "no backup found" message and creates a new > backup directory on the hard drive > > This indicated to me that deja dup ignored the restore directory I > entered, and instead used the default directory, which did not exist, > hence restore fails because the backend is told to look in the wrong > place for the backup! This seems like more a user interface issue than > an issue with the backup. > > Here is the workflow I had to use to restore my backup: > > 1. Set storage location to "local folder" and then manually navigate to > the folder on my external hard drive. If I did not do this specifically, > then backup would fail. Selecting the external hard drive directly as the > device and entering the folder in the "folder" field also fails. > 2. Select restore and again use "local folder" and manually navigate to > the folder on my external hard drive. If I instead try to use the hard > drive device listed and enter the backup folder in the "folder" field, the > restore also fails. > > This issue occurs on both Ubuntu 18.04.1 and ElementaryOS Juno. > > lsb_release -d > Description: elementary OS 5.0 Juno > > dpkg-query -W deja-dup duplicity > deja-dup 37.1-2fakesync1 > duplicity 0.7.17-0ubuntu1 > > gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.DejaDup > /tmp/deja-dup.gsettings > cat /tmp/deja-dup.gsettings > org.gnome.DejaDup last-restore '2018-11-23T01:39:44.556645Z' > org.gnome.DejaDup periodic true > org.gnome.DejaDup periodic-period 1 > org.gnome.DejaDup full-backup-period 90 > org.gnome.DejaDup backend 'local' > org.gnome.DejaDup last-run '2018-11-23T01:39:44.556645Z' > org.gnome.DejaDup nag-check '' > org.gnome.DejaDup prompt-check '2018-11-22T12:34:36.095106Z' > org.gnome.DejaDup root-prompt true > org.gnome.DejaDup include-list ['$HOME'] > org.gnome.DejaDup exclude-list ['/home/ethan/.local/share/Trash'] > org.gnome.DejaDup last-backup '' > org.gnome.DejaDup allow-metered false > org.gnome.DejaDup delete-after 0 > org.gnome.DejaDup.Rackspace username '' > org.gnome.DejaDup.Rackspace container 'ethan-laptop' > org.gnome.DejaDup.S3 id '' > org.gnome.DejaDup.S3 bucket '' > org.gnome.DejaDup.S3 folder 'ethan-laptop' > org.gnome.DejaDup.OpenStack authurl '' > org.gnome.DejaDup.OpenStack tenant '' > org.gnome.DejaDup.OpenStack username '' > org.gnome.DejaDup.OpenStack container 'ethan-laptop' > org.gnome.DejaDup.GCS id '' > org.gnome.DejaDup.GCS bucket '' > org.gnome.DejaDup.GCS folder 'ethan-laptop' > org.gnome.DejaDup.Local folder '/media/ethan/porta_500gb/m1330' > org.gnome.DejaDup.Remote uri '' > org.gnome.DejaDup.Remote folder 'ethan-laptop' > org.gnome.DejaDup.Drive uuid '1919a422-d154-4e19-b551-f74b56cf1f0e' > org.gnome.DejaDup.Drive icon '. GThemedIcon drive-harddisk-usb > drive-harddisk drive' > org.gnome.DejaDup.Drive folder 'm1330' > org.gnome.DejaDup.Drive name 'porta_500gb' > org.gnome.DejaDup.GOA id '' > org.gnome.DejaDup.GOA folder 'ethan-laptop' > org.gnome.DejaDup.GOA type 'google' > org.gnome.DejaDup.File short-name '' > org.gnome.DejaDup.File type 'normal' > org.gnome.DejaDup.File migrated true > org.gnome.DejaDup.File name '' > org.gnome.DejaDup.File path '' > org.gnome.DejaDup.File uuid '' > org.gnome.DejaDup.File icon '' > org.gnome.DejaDup.File relpath @ay [] > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1804744/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1804744 Title: Restoring from new location does not find backup files To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1804744/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs