Comment 0 for bug 1749984

posted on the forum: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2384934

another similar bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/601243

Deja Dup Restore fails: "No backups to restore"

    Hello,

    I posting here in case others come across this minor problem.

    In my case, I backup the dejadup/deja-dup to back-up my user's home

    when I tried to restore the back up onto a fresh install on the same machine I found the error

    "No backups to restore"

    the steps to replicate this error:
    - complete a fresh installation of ubuntu
    - plug a usb storage with the back-up from the previous installation
    - try to restore the previous back-up
    - give the directory of the previous back-up and click forward
    - the Error is shown

    the reason for this error seems to be the configuration of the 'Backup Tool/
    the path to the location of the previous back-up *has* to be entered in the tab 'Storage Location'

    then repeat the process for Restoring the back-up and everything works fine

    I hope it saves others from having a 'big scare'

    Regards,

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System / package details:

$ lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 17.10

$ dpkg-query -W deja-dup duplicity
deja-dup 36.3-0ubuntu0.1
duplicity 0.7.12-1ubuntu1