Re: Restoring a USB back-up using Back-ups (Duplicity) on Fedora

2020-05-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrew Wood wrote: > Note that I'm not especially concerned with restoring the USB exactly - with > all its partitions, etc. In this case it seems consensus that you should wipe out its partition table and create one that fits your intentions. E.g. one single partition claiming the device up

Re: Restoring a USB back-up using Back-ups (Duplicity) on Fedora

2020-05-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Samuel Sieb wrote: > I was thinking that he had used one of the tools to > create the live media, but that usually gives a mount point of "LIVE", so it > likely was a straight write of the iso. Oops. I did not consider unpacker/installer tools. So Andrew Wood should better run something like

Re: Restoring a USB back-up using Back-ups (Duplicity) on Fedora

2020-05-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/6/20 1:27 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: The data of the ISO quite surely overwrote the filesystem metadata of the original partition 1. So you will most probably have to start with a new partition table and a new filesystem. There is half hope for getting your old partition table back. If the

Re: Restoring a USB back-up using Back-ups (Duplicity) on Fedora

2020-05-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/6/20 12:52 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Andrew Wood wrote: How do I restore the contents of the USB flash drive so that it has the same contents as the /run/media/awood/7160-75C1 ?? Samuel Sieb wrote: sudo mkfs.fat -i 716075C1 /dev/sdb1 One will normally want to erase the partition table

Re: Restoring a USB back-up using Back-ups (Duplicity) on Fedora

2020-05-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrew Wood wrote: > This leads me to wonder if I can simply rename the volume (is that > the correct term?) to the previous name and then use Duplicity? If the ISO was copied to the USB stick in a way that it can boot, then the old partition table of the USB stick was overwritten at that occ

Re: Restoring a USB back-up using Back-ups (Duplicity) on Fedora

2020-05-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrew Wood wrote: > > How do I restore the contents of the USB flash drive so that it has the > > same contents as the /run/media/awood/7160-75C1 ?? Samuel Sieb wrote: > sudo mkfs.fat -i 716075C1 /dev/sdb1 One will normally want to erase the partition table brought by the ISO and instead cr

Re: Restoring a USB back-up using Back-ups (Duplicity) on Fedora

2020-05-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/6/20 11:38 AM, Andrew Wood wrote: I had a USB flash drive which I backed using Back-ups (Duplicity) on Fedora 31. The USB volume was called /run/media/awood/7160-75C1 I then used the same USB flash drive to create a Fedora 32 Live Image on it. After this, the USB volume was called /run/m

Restoring a USB back-up using Back-ups (Duplicity) on Fedora

2020-05-06 Thread Andrew Wood
Hello, I had a USB flash drive which I backed using Back-ups (Duplicity) on Fedora 31. The USB volume was called /run/media/awood/7160-75C1 I then used the same USB flash drive to create a Fedora 32 Live Image on it. After this, the USB volume was called /run/media/awood/Fedora-WS-Live-32-1-