deja-dup issue

[Colin Law]

On 14 May 2016 at 08:49, Jatin khatri <khatri.jatin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 13 May 2016 09:26 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>
> On 13 May 2016 at 16:38, Jatin khatri <khatri.jatin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I've take backup of my home on old Ubuntu-14.04, using Déjà Dup a front-end
> of duplicity on external USB3 HDD, after I reinstalled Ubuntu 16.04. After
> all installation done I tried to restore some files in my home folder (
> .thunderbird, .remina etc...) that file restored successfully from the given
> list of files  ...thats fine. But after 4 to 5 days I need some more
> files/folders which was on my desktop and in my home folder on old Ubuntu,
> so I tried to restore that file using Nautilus right-click option(Restore
> Missing Files..) to restore that files and folders... surprisingly I cant
> see any files/Folders to restore in "Déjà Dup" dialog-box and it says
> scanning finished..!!! now question is how do I restore that files/Folders?
> which was previously in the list but not after 4,5 days ?
>
> If you look on the hdd using nautilus or other file explorer can you
> see the deja dup archive files there?
>
> Colin
>
>
>
> yes its already there, Even I can restore all backup to another location
> and, I can see my all data intact. But Question why it does not allow me to
> restore a single file/folder using nautilus right-click ( Restore Missing
> file.. ) option ?

OK, I misunderstood.  I thought you could lost everything.  Sorry I
don't know deja dup well enough to help.
I did not like the way the archive is stored in a rather opaque format
and have now switched to backintime.

Cheers

Colin