Unable to restore from backup

You have to set where to: /media/Drobo01/backup

Regards,
Dan

On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 21:52 +0000, Todd Nine wrote:
> New question #155555 on Back In Time:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/backintime/+question/155555
>
> Hi all,
> First thanks for producing a great backup system. It's worked flawlessly for several months. Yesterday, I tried to upgrade my workstation to 11.04 and BAM everything is hosed. I've reinstalled the 11.04 with a clean disk, now I'm ready to restore my system from Back in Time, however I can't find any substantial documentation on how to do so. I'd be happy to contribute a howto with what I learn, but I need a hand.
>
> I've read this post.
>
> https://answers.launchpad.net/backintime/+question/143488
>
> On my external Drobo ext3 drive, I have the following path.
>
> /media/Drobo01/backup/backintime/greenlantern/root/1
>
> I fire up back in time, and I set the following settings.
>
> where: /media/Drobo01/backup/backintime
> advanced:
> host: greenlantern
> user: root
> profile id: 1
>
>
> Unfortunately back in time never shows my backups, even though I can view them on the disk. I was backing up my entire system except the values in /tmp. Is there a method for restoring the entire system?
>
> Thanks,
> Todd
>
>

Um, can't you just go like this?

cp /backupdrive/backintime/hostname/user/PROFILE_ID/20110509-205030-171/config ~/.config/backintime/

Then startup your backintime and restore?

By the way, in case my wording was bad, lol...

Um = I'm thinking

And not...

Um = are you dumb?