1) Error while trying to recover my home using a live system - 2) Feature request

[Golddouble]

Describe the bug
As I can not recover my whole home-folder, when I am in my normal system, I have tried to recover my whole home-folder via live-system. When I was trying to recover my whole home this way, an error occurred.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
0. I have a separate partition for my root-folder and for my home-folder

1. I made a backup of my whole home-folder with Vorta.
2. I made a backup of my root-folder (but with home excluded) with the "live system creator of my Linux distribution" (not with Vorta)
3. I have destroyed my root-folder
4. I tried to recover my root-folder with the backup of the "live system creator of my Linux distribution" (see step 2.)
5. -> This way I have destroyed my home-folder.
6. I now tried to recover my home folder with Vorta. Here is what I did:
   a) I start my MX Linux live system. The live system is on my USB-Stick. It contains a snapshot of my root-folder, how it was on 2020-10-31. (see step 2.)
   b) My live system seems to have now a home-folder which name is "Golddouble". I guess it is not on a separate partition, it's just part of the live environment. And I have an other home-folder on the separate partition (see step 0 above), which name is also "Golddouble".
   c) While I am in this live system, I start Vorta. I "create" my existing repository. (from step 1.)
   d) I press extract
   e) as target I select "/"
   f) I start the recovery process
   g) An error occurred.
   

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: MX Linux 19.2 (Debian 10)
• Vorta version: 0.7.1
• Installed from: Flatpack

What can I do, to bring my home which is in the backup into my working system.

Thank you.

[m3nu]

It says "No space left on device" there. 🙄 So either that or permissions? Read-only mount?

[Golddouble]

Thank you.
I made some thests now in my live system.

1. Saving a picture in my "Live system home": Works.
2. Saving a picture in my home which is on a separate folder: works

So can it be, that Vorta really tries to recover the archive in the home of my live system instead of the home in the separate partition? I have only 8 GB RAM the home, but my archive is over 100 GB.

I found out now, that the path to my home on the separate partition (where the archive should be recovered) is:
/media/Golddouble/homeMX/Golddouble/

So I guess the archive will not try to recover itself in
/media/Golddouble/homeMX/Golddouble/
When I select "/" as target?

Is there any chance to recover my archive directly into
/media/Golddouble/homeMX/Golddouble/
?

... instead of
/home/Golddouble/

So can you please tell me, what do I have to select as target?

(When I made the backup some days ago, I had selected this as source in this repository:
/home/Golddouble )

Thank you.

[Golddouble]

the source of my backup in working system was
/home/Golddouble/

What exactly must I do, to recover the content of "/home/Golddouble/" of my archive directly into the live system folder
/media/Golddouble/homeMX/Golddouble/<my content>

Or does Vorta really not support this functionality and it is really impossible to recover this archive directly into
/media/Golddouble/homeMX/Golddouble/

?

Thank you.

I need this functionality, because I have to recover my whole home (and not only a part of it) with the help of a live USB Linux system.

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[Golddouble]

This is still a feature I miss. What do you think?

[real-yfprojects]

So can you please tell me, what do I have to select as target?

You select /media/Golddouble/homeMX/Golddouble/ as a target directory. The contents of the archive will then be extracted to the target directory. However the whole directory structure will be extracted as well. You will there find the contents of the home folder in /media/Golddouble/homeMX/Golddouble/home/Golddouble/. You therefore have to type in the following commands to move the contents. Afterwards you might have to fix the folder permissions.

mv /media/Golddouble/homeMX/Golddouble/home/Golddouble/ /media/Golddouble/homeMX/temp
rmdir /media/Golddouble/homeMX/Golddouble 
mv /media/Golddouble/homeMX/temp /media/Golddouble/homeMX/Golddouble

[Golddouble]

Thank you.

Actually the feature request was, to get this directly via Vorta, without "mv".

[real-yfprojects]

I see. That FR is tracked in #441.