Déjà Dup

Unknown error prevents restoring a file (Ubuntu 20.04)

Asked by Robin

I have a Libreoffice spreadsheet that I would like to restore from an earlier date.

I have reinstalled Ubuntu 20.04, and copied the backups to a different location, but both have made no difference to the recovery. I have been using Nautilus file manager, right clicking the current version of the spreadsheet and choosing to recover just that one file. There is no problem until I enter my authorisation to proceed to recover. At that point the unknown error prevent any progress.

I also thought I might gain from running Deja-dup instead of the Ubuntu front end called Backup. My idea was to be able to get a trace, but I could not even start:

$ deja-dup
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

(org.gnome.DejaDup:6031): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:52:14.533: cannot open display: DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

I do not have a software firewall manager. I use the modem firewall.

How do I proceed to recover the file that I wish to restore?

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Robin (r1579) said (last edit ): 		#1

As it is urgent for me to recover the file, I looked further at some of the previous questions and did the following:

sudo apt-get remove deja-dup
sudo snap install deja-dup --classic

sudo deja-dup --restore-missing /media/robin/data_sdde/Private

I now get the response:
execv failed: Permission denied

I am very pleased to report that using the command line in Terminal allowed me to restore the file. I had to correct the option to rostore /media etc

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Robin (r1579) said : 		#2

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Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#3

Hello! Sorry for the late response - but I’m glad it got sorted!