deja-dup issue

[Jatin khatri]

On Saturday 14 May 2016 01:31 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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
>
ok, thanks

what do you suggest for daily/weekly scheduled  data backup for a laptop 
running Ubuntu 16.04 ?



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