I backed up my Debian 12 home folder to Google Drive using Deja Dup without encryption password earlier this day. Now I want to use this back up but I noticed that it has weird structure:
| .
| …
| snapshots/
| locks/
| keys/
| index/
| data/
| config
Deja Dup is unable to understand this and says “No backup files found”. I tried to create a new back up and it added normal files:
| duplicity-full.20250325T113103Z.manifest
| duplicity-full-signatures.20250325T113103Z.sigtar.gz
| duplicity-full.20250325T113103Z.vol1.difftar.gz
Is it possible to load my previous back up?
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Did you make the first backup with the 48.0 flatpak that was recently released? And then the second backup with your system Deja Dup?
In the latest flatpak, we default to using Restic for new backups (which gives you those files like snapshots/ etc).
But if you then switched back to an older Deja Dup, it won’t recognize those files, which could explain that behavior (not recognizing the backup and making Duplicity files when it makes a new backup)
You could restore the files by using Restic on the command line or using the latest flatpak and pointing at that folder (though maybe clear out the duplicity files too - having both in the same folder will confuse our “what backup system is in the is folder?” detection).
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Thank you so much! Didn’t notice Flatpak wasn’t enabled on the system I was trying to use my backup on