(SOLVED) 8.04 & Backups

[xtremesupremacy3]

Hey,

Yesterday I decided to try out something reaaaaaaaal stupid.
And that was to upgrade this beautiful Ultimate Edition 1.7 to Ubuntu 8.04 whilst keeping all the features of Ultimate Edition
Sounded pretty simple to me. But after a download of 4 hours and then an install of a couple with lots of errors being spewed out at me it was ready. Well come on what did I expect it was Alpha stage.
Anyway from the start it went wrong, the icons looked better and it looked a lot more up to date sure, but I had a million and one Crash reports. And when its 2am you kinda think, ugh its too late for messing around now. I guess I'll wait for next month. When you already have a moany laptop like mine you cant really please it anyways.

But I wasn't too bothered, I had backed up all my data using Backup config supplied in Ultimate Edition 1.7.
Having had that stored on my Ipod I went to format the laptop using the lovely 1.7 DVD.
Everytime I installed it and booted up, all was well but the next boot left me hanging. This happened 4 times and now no other cd's were being read...whats going on?! I got a bit worried. Decided to put the lappy to sleep and try again in the morning. That made all the difference. God knows what that was all about and now all is working well...or is it?

Sure enough all went well and I transfered my backup file to my Desktop
opened the backup restore and put the file in to no avail, so I looked in the /var/backup folder only to find it doesnt exist?! so i mkdir'ed one and placed my file in there and PING up comes a list of the folders I want to restore. So I select each one, one by one and all seems to have gone fine and I reboot. When I log in again theres no change on the surface and after looking through my Home folder theres no change there either.

Now unless I'm doing something wrong them 4Gb that was eaten up by the backup must have done something right?

Anybody know what I can do?

Thanks, Arthur

[LeadFingers]

so I looked in the /var/backup folder only to find it doesnt exist?! so i mkdir'ed one and placed my file in there and PING up comes a list of the folders I want to restore. So I select each one, one by one and all seems to have gone fine and I reboot. When I log in again theres no change on the surface and after looking through my Home folder theres no change there either.
Now unless I'm doing something wrong them 4Gb that was eaten up by the backup must have done something right?
Anybody know what I can do?
Thanks, Arthur

/var/backup or /var/backups ?
One of the little 1.7 quirks, It transfers Bak files to /var/backups, (by default)
but looks for Bak files in ................................/var/backup, (by default)
And will not see anything in /var/backups

Make a Bak folder in your /home & fill it with your Bak stuff
From the 'Simple Bak restore", try selecting "use custom"
point it to the file you just made, and see if that works
(prolly a permissions thang)

[xtremesupremacy3]

Well I figured it out...I'm going to have to say it's due to permissions.

Just in case anyone else has the same trouble or just for future reference here is exactly what I did and all went successful:

1)I opened console window and typed the following

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cd /var

after which I went to make a directory for backup

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sudo mkdir backup

2)once this had been done I moved my file which I'll call backup.1.1.1.ful just for eduction purposes like so

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sudo mv /home/myfolder/backup.1.1.1.ful /var/backup

3)After the file was moved I simply typed the following

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sudo srestore /var/backup/backup.1.1.1.ful /home/myfolder

And it copied the contents, after which I needed to reboot and all was well except the wallpaper.

Just a few point to the people who need this as a guide. I used 'backup.1.1.1.ful' and 'myfolder' as a guide, please replace with your full backup name and replace myfolder with the name of your home directory.

Also if you just want it to be copied to a certain folder in your home directory for instance folder 'old' then instead of the last code type in this:

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sudo srestore /var/backup/backup.1.1.1.ful /home/myfolder/old

replacing name of backup file and name of folder accordingly.

Hope this helps others too