Restoring Backup

[musabbirkazim]

I can’t restore from Backups app..it says no backup found

[zabadabadoo]

Have you pointed Backups (DejaDup) to the disk and directory where you saved the backup?

Are you simply trying to Restore contents of /Home to the same Operating System as you had when doing the backup, or has anything changed?

[musabbirkazim]

Yes same operating system…i was trying to restore from google drive

[applecheeks37]

Are you able to still upload to your google drive? Sometimes you need to relogin from time to time to get things working again. I will say, however, that using google drive in this way has lead to some issues in the past with various things:

Trouble with backups to Google Drive

After warnings to backup precious files before trying to resize partitions, I seem to be progressing toward that goal at a crawl. Since Deja Dup shows Google Drive as a storage option, I tried that. System monitor shows data being uploaded (no progress bar in Dup, tsk tsk), up to a point. At 1.1 GB things came to a halt on the monitor and a popup said “Backup failed - unable to authenticate” [or somesuch]. But in Chromium my Gdrive acct does indeed show 16 uploads @25MB, e.g. “Created 3:42 PM w…

Backup failed

I have scheduled backup on my machine and suddenly I notice an error. Screenshot below. [image] Before the error it seems to upload files and suddenly it shows the error message.

Can you see the files in your google drive if you go there manually?