Why is Duplicity asking for a passphrase when restoring a backup?
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I'm migrating from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. I've got everything from 16.04 backed up via Deja-dup to an external disk. Now after I installed 18.04, I tried restoring it but failed. So I proceeded to try Duplicity.
The problem is, Duplicity is asking for GnuPG passphrase even though I know exactly that I didn't set one up when creating the backups. What should I do?
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I'm migrating from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. I've got everything from 16.04 backed up via Deja-dup to an external disk. Now after I installed 18.04, I tried restoring it but failed. So I proceeded to try Duplicity.
The problem is, Duplicity is asking for GnuPG passphrase even though I know exactly that I didn't set one up when creating the backups. What should I do?
deja-dup duplicity
asked May 8 at 16:34
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I'm migrating from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. I've got everything from 16.04 backed up via Deja-dup to an external disk. Now after I installed 18.04, I tried restoring it but failed. So I proceeded to try Duplicity.
The problem is, Duplicity is asking for GnuPG passphrase even though I know exactly that I didn't set one up when creating the backups. What should I do?
deja-dup duplicity
asked May 8 at 16:34
starleaf1
1728
I'm migrating from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. I've got everything from 16.04 backed up via Deja-dup to an external disk. Now after I installed 18.04, I tried restoring it but failed. So I proceeded to try Duplicity.
The problem is, Duplicity is asking for GnuPG passphrase even though I know exactly that I didn't set one up when creating the backups. What should I do?
deja-dup duplicity
asked May 8 at 16:34
starleaf1
1728
asked May 8 at 16:34
starleaf1
1728
asked May 8 at 16:34
starleaf1
1728
asked May 8 at 16:34
starleaf1
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1728
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This just happened to me as well.
tldr; try a space character for the passphrase
Most of below may not actually be relevant, but I'm not sure what causes the problem, so here is what I did:
- I previously made a backup using the Backups GUI built in to Ubuntu (I think it's really called deja-dup), then I wiped my machine
- After the 18.04 install I configured Backups to backup the current data to a new folder
- I tried to use Backups restore feature to restore my original backup to a temp folder, but for some reason it would only restore from the new backup
- I then decided to use duplicity directly like so...
duplicity restore file://. /<my path>/temp_dir- but it asked for a passphrase, I simply hit
Enter, but it asked again - I started searching for answers and found this question... I found no answers
- In a fit of desperation I tried a space character... and it worked!
It's some sort of bug I guess, my restore is still running so I'm not currently sure if any input would work or only a space.
Hope it helps
answered May 17 at 2:18
jibbers42
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I can confirm this. I just put in a variation of my usual password and it works.
– starleaf1
May 17 at 13:43
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This just happened to me as well.
tldr; try a space character for the passphrase
Most of below may not actually be relevant, but I'm not sure what causes the problem, so here is what I did:
- I previously made a backup using the Backups GUI built in to Ubuntu (I think it's really called deja-dup), then I wiped my machine
- After the 18.04 install I configured Backups to backup the current data to a new folder
- I tried to use Backups restore feature to restore my original backup to a temp folder, but for some reason it would only restore from the new backup
- I then decided to use duplicity directly like so...
duplicity restore file://. /<my path>/temp_dir- but it asked for a passphrase, I simply hit
Enter, but it asked again - I started searching for answers and found this question... I found no answers
- In a fit of desperation I tried a space character... and it worked!
It's some sort of bug I guess, my restore is still running so I'm not currently sure if any input would work or only a space.
Hope it helps
answered May 17 at 2:18
jibbers42
235
I can confirm this. I just put in a variation of my usual password and it works.
– starleaf1
May 17 at 13:43
add a comment |Â
up vote
1
down vote
This just happened to me as well.
tldr; try a space character for the passphrase
Most of below may not actually be relevant, but I'm not sure what causes the problem, so here is what I did:
- I previously made a backup using the Backups GUI built in to Ubuntu (I think it's really called deja-dup), then I wiped my machine
- After the 18.04 install I configured Backups to backup the current data to a new folder
- I tried to use Backups restore feature to restore my original backup to a temp folder, but for some reason it would only restore from the new backup
- I then decided to use duplicity directly like so...
duplicity restore file://. /<my path>/temp_dir- but it asked for a passphrase, I simply hit
Enter, but it asked again - I started searching for answers and found this question... I found no answers
- In a fit of desperation I tried a space character... and it worked!
It's some sort of bug I guess, my restore is still running so I'm not currently sure if any input would work or only a space.
Hope it helps
answered May 17 at 2:18
jibbers42
235
I can confirm this. I just put in a variation of my usual password and it works.
– starleaf1
May 17 at 13:43
add a comment |Â
up vote
1
down vote
up vote
1
down vote
This just happened to me as well.
tldr; try a space character for the passphrase
Most of below may not actually be relevant, but I'm not sure what causes the problem, so here is what I did:
- I previously made a backup using the Backups GUI built in to Ubuntu (I think it's really called deja-dup), then I wiped my machine
- After the 18.04 install I configured Backups to backup the current data to a new folder
- I tried to use Backups restore feature to restore my original backup to a temp folder, but for some reason it would only restore from the new backup
- I then decided to use duplicity directly like so...
duplicity restore file://. /<my path>/temp_dir- but it asked for a passphrase, I simply hit
Enter, but it asked again - I started searching for answers and found this question... I found no answers
- In a fit of desperation I tried a space character... and it worked!
It's some sort of bug I guess, my restore is still running so I'm not currently sure if any input would work or only a space.
Hope it helps
answered May 17 at 2:18
jibbers42
235
This just happened to me as well.
tldr; try a space character for the passphrase
Most of below may not actually be relevant, but I'm not sure what causes the problem, so here is what I did:
- I previously made a backup using the Backups GUI built in to Ubuntu (I think it's really called deja-dup), then I wiped my machine
- After the 18.04 install I configured Backups to backup the current data to a new folder
- I tried to use Backups restore feature to restore my original backup to a temp folder, but for some reason it would only restore from the new backup
- I then decided to use duplicity directly like so...
duplicity restore file://. /<my path>/temp_dir- but it asked for a passphrase, I simply hit
Enter, but it asked again - I started searching for answers and found this question... I found no answers
- In a fit of desperation I tried a space character... and it worked!
It's some sort of bug I guess, my restore is still running so I'm not currently sure if any input would work or only a space.
Hope it helps
answered May 17 at 2:18
jibbers42
235
answered May 17 at 2:18
jibbers42
235
answered May 17 at 2:18
jibbers42
235
answered May 17 at 2:18
jibbers42
235
235
I can confirm this. I just put in a variation of my usual password and it works.
– starleaf1
May 17 at 13:43
add a comment |Â
I can confirm this. I just put in a variation of my usual password and it works.
– starleaf1
May 17 at 13:43
I can confirm this. I just put in a variation of my usual password and it works.
– starleaf1
May 17 at 13:43
I can confirm this. I just put in a variation of my usual password and it works.
– starleaf1
May 17 at 13:43
add a comment |Â
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