Comment 100 for bug 1217959

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 <email address hidden>:

> @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
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> 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.
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