Hello,
Thank-you for your suggestions re. the partitioning of the USB in
response to my previous email.
Note that I'm not especially concerned with restoring the USB exactly -
with all its partitions, etc. It's a standard USB which was formatted on
a windows machine to be a Live Fedora 32 stick. But prior to this I'd
backed it up with duplicity simply by plugging into my Fedora machine
when the weekly back-up was scheduled. It's true that even before it
become the Live Fedora 32 stick, it was a Live USB anyway. When I
plugged it into the computer then I'd have a panel pop-up saying:
'Contains software. Would you like to run it?' But more importantly,
there was data on it - in the data partition.
The restored USB could be reformatted to be a single large volume as has
been suggested. I'm not clear if duplicity would only have backed-up the
data partition on the USB (volume name '7160-75C1'). In a sense, it
doesn't matter as the data is the part that matters and that remains in
the archive which duplicity created. Does that all make sense?
This leads me to the use of duplicity. I notice a man entry for it here:
https://linux.die.net/man/1/duplicity
*duplicity restore [*/options/*]* /source_url /target_directory
I couldn't understand how to use this command! My first unknown is the
source URL. I'm using a external USB hardisk 'MyPassport' on /dev/sda1
for the duplicity archive.
Is it source file:///dev/sda1/Deja-Vu-Back-up where Deja-Vu-Back-up is
the directory with the back-ups??
Somehow, I need to pass the name of the backed-up USB volume
('7160-75C1') too. Note that it's all the data contents of the the
volume. Then there's the target directory too - anywhere in my hard disk
in the home/user directory will do - on a standard Fedora setup.
Thanks for all your help and advice.
Best wishes, Andrew
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Subject: re. Restoring a USB back-up using Back-ups (Duplicity)
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 21:11:15 +0100
From: Andrew Wood <andrew(a)gn.apc.org>
To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Thanks for this reply ... I should have said that the USB drive I
mentioned (/run/media/awood/7160-75C1 ) was previously a bootable USB
and partitioned as such. This leads me to wonder if I can simply rename
the volume (is that the correct term?) to the previous name and then use
Duplicity? But what's the parameters for a restore on this USB with this
name?
Thanks for your help and assistance.
Andrew
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 12:15:32 -0700 From: Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net>
Subject: Re: Restoring a USB back-up using Back-ups (Duplicity) on
Fedora To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Message-ID:
<a09052d2-9abc-a40d-82a5-8dc4670c2b31(a)sieb.net> Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed On 5/6/20 11:38 AM, Andrew Wood
wrote:
I had a USB flash drive which I backed using Back-ups (Duplicity) on
Fedora 31. The USB volume was called /run/media/awood/7160-75C1
I then used the same USB flash drive to create a Fedora 32 Live Image on
it. After this, the USB volume was called
/run/media/awood/Fedora-WS-Live-32-1-6
How do I restore the contents of the USB flash drive so that it has the
same contents as the /run/media/awood/7160-75C1 ??
You need to reformat it with the original filesystem id. Open a
terminal and use "fdisk -l" to make sure you have the right device. I'm
going to assume the drive is /dev/sdb and only has one partition. Make
sure it's unmounted by running:
umount /run/media/awood/Fedora-WS-Live-32-1-6
Don't click the eject button because that will also disconnect it from
USB. Then run "sudo mkfs.fat -i 716075C1 /dev/sdb1". Replug the device
and it should come up as before.
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