Cannot find restored files

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#1

Running CLI 3.0.1 on a QNAP NAS. I have repositories /share/homes/Keith and /share/homes/Keith/Pictures. Backups of /share/homes/Keith exclude Pictures/*.

I accidentally restored the folder /share/homes/Keith/Mobile/Phone/Camera to /share/homes/Keith instead of to the original repository location, /share/homes/Keith/Pictures (see Restore location protection/default). Afterwards, /share/homes/Keith/Mobile/Phone/Camera was empty. I’ve looked everywhere I can think of for the accidentally restored files and cannot find them. But they must be somewhere, because repeating the restore to /share/homes/Keith skips the “unchanged” files.

Repeating the restore command with the -debug didn’t help, because the debug output does not list the full path of the skipped files.

#2

Could they have been restored with the permissions of the user you can’t see?

For example, if duplicacy was running as root, and -ignore-owner was specified, the restored files will be owned by root, and if you are accessing your data with your current user – you won’t see the data.

You can try to take ownership of all files and folders under /share/homes/Keith (assuming your username is Keith)

    sudo chown -R Keith /share/homes/Keith
#3

Yes, but I’m aware of this bug, so I was looking on the NAS.

I found the files in the “expected” location today, /share/homes/Keith/Mobile/Phone/Camera, so I must have missed them somehow when looking yesterday.