[lug] Restoring backups/scripting help help

[logan garbarini]

Thanks, I'll definitely try that.  Just for clarification, Duplicity splits
up files into 64kb blocks then archives them in a 1mb  difftar, when you
decompress them you get a folder full  of 64kb blocks, which is why you cd
into them.

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Lee Woodworth <blug-mail at duboulder.com>wrote:

> On 07/10/2011 07:26 PM, logan garbarini wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I had a bit of a problem with my computer's drive, which shouldn't have
> been
> > a problem except I found out that all of my daily backups somehow became
> > corrupted.  I used DejaDup, the Gui to duplicity.   It gave me a problem
> > with a SHA1 hash mismatch, which after several hours, I decided it was
> > hopeless to try to repair all of the messed up archives.  I managed to
> find
> > these instructions here on how to restore manually:
> > https://live.gnome.org/DejaDup/Help/Restore/WorstCase#Restoring_by_Hand.
> > But, I get stuck on the last step, how to recombine every file.  Is there
> > any way to automate the following command for all my directories? I have
> 30
> > GB of files still not combined.  I know that some data will be corupted
> but
> > there were only a few of the archives damaged.  Any help would be
> > appreciated, thanks in advance...
> >
> > Example Command:
> >
> > cd multivolume_snapshot/home/jane/essay.txt
>
> essay.txt looks like a regular file name. Do you really mean to cd to it?
>
> > cat * > essay.txt
>
> Not sure what you are needing to do, but this might suggest a direction for
> you:
>
> for dir in $(find /multivolume_snapshot -type d) do
>   echo "$dir"
>   cd "$dir"
>     ????
> done
>
> If you have more directories than the command line can handle you will need
> to
> use a pipe/file in a read loop.
>
> HTH
>
> >
> > --Logan Garbarini
> >
> >
> >
> >
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