On Sunday, 18 December 2016 15:18:05 PYST [email protected] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 02:18:25PM +0100, Aquarius wrote: > > I re-installed Debian Jessie after making a backup of my home directory. > > Could you describe this "dejadup" a bit more? How is it supposed to > do its thing? Is it saving your home dir or more in the system? > > > Maybe the hostname of the new installation is different from before. > > When trying to restore my backup I get an error saying: > > "Error creating directory. Permission denied." > > Hm. Still a bit unspecific. Where is it trying to create the directory? > What directory is it trying to create? (I'd guess either your whole > home directory or some directory below it). > > Is dejadup supposed to restore up your user, only the contents of your home > dir, or more? > > The error message itself leads to the guess that the new host name > isn't the problem. But this is just a very vague guess right now. > > > I would think the to be created directory is on my new system. But I > > really do not know how to make the home directory available to deja dup. > > Have you already set up your user? And mind you that not the username is important but the user-ID Are you restoring to the same user-ID?
> How do you invoke the actions to > do a restore via dejadup (sorry, I haven't any clue what that is). https://launchpad.net/deja-dup But there is indeed not enough info to pinpoint the problem. > > regards > -- tomás regard Eike
