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backintime package

BIT isn't seeing snapshots from prior install

Asked by Ian Borg

I've been using BIT on Fedora20. The backup drive was/is a physically different drive than what the OS was /is installed on.

 I have many good snapshots in the Fedora20 backup folder. I got rid of Fedora and installed openSUSE in its place the other day.

The new install of backintime (on openSUSE) is working fine, but I want to restore some files from the older Fedora snapshots and can't seem to make backintime access them properly to do a restore (the restore button is not active).

I'm still using the same backup drive, but a new backup folder. I can get those snapshots to restore no problem, just not the ones in the fedora20 folder. Even if I make the Fedora20 folder the current backup folder, no snapshots show up in the left pane of the GUI.

Does anyone know a way to make BIT access the other folder for restore?

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Germar (germar) said : 		#1

Please deactivate 'Auto Host/User/ProfileID' and set hostname manually to fedora20. Or use BackInTime version >1.1.0 which will come with an option to restore the config and also doesn't have this confusing 'Auto Host/User/ProfileID' option anymore.

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michael (yellupcm-gmail) said : 		#2

Come on guys, you both have been around a good while. You both know this is Ubuntu support. You can find openSUSE support at the site below.

https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Support

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Ian Borg (icb) said : 		#3

problem solved, just had to link the old backup files to the new backintime folder that bit created when I reset it to the fedora folder.