Kup unable to save recovery information

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Running kup with the recent versions of Plasma and OpenSuse Tumbleweed I noticed that kup successfully checks the file consistency but before completing the saving of the backup it runs into an error with the following message:

Kup did not successfully complete the bup backup job: failed to generate recovery info.

The log file says:

bup “-d” “/run/media/peter/697dab13-1f0f-4cac-b143-708efd90520b/vision_01” “fsck” “-g” “-j” “4”
You must specify a list of files when creating.
b’pack-11a531ccfdc81e75d0a8bdce0ccb6f020604dc12’ par2 create: failed (3)
You must specify a list of files when creating.
b’pack-fd1a5ade3f8e6ee875ddf241e7d45497f8d89ef1’ par2 create: failed (3)
You must specify a list of files when creating.
b’pack-2bbe5ca7bead405d5aed6337b02d9d1dbc80ca55’ par2 create: failed (3)
You must specify a list of files when creating.
b’pack-085799cc7db6c29b46c24f9d4be1537554b4d040’ par2 create: failed (3)
You must specify a list of files when creating.
b’pack-4cdcb44fbfedf2a0bddc260c6d11e663ea0cd38c’ par2 create: failed (3)
You must specify a list of files when creating.
b’pack-814fcf46861d2792631bc44f1e4eb794566b9475’ par2 create: failed (3)

So, how can I find out which files are causing the issue in order to fix the problem?

Thanks very much for your support!

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hi, welcome.

what are the settings you used to create the backup plan?

backup status > configure kup > configure plan

there are 5 tabs here, what are you settings for each tab?

you can post screenshots (one at a time, since you are new).

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Hi,

I experience exactly the same issue. It came with some update of Tumbleweed, unfortunately, I do not recall when. The last successful update was on September 25. I have not changed the configuration. In my case, it’s a versioned backup with my complete home directory as source, destination is an external SSD, schedule is active usage time of 6 hours with confirmation before saving the backup. In the advanced options, show hidden folders, verify integrity, and generate recovery information are activated and no files are excluded.

Versions:
kup-backup 0.10.0-2.1
bup 0.33.7-12
par2cmdline 1.0.0-1.1

Any help or pointer are highly appreciated.

Thanks and all the best,

Andreas

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what is the output of bup fsck -rgvv

should look something like

fsck: No filenames given: checking all packs.                                                     
fsck: checking b'pack-56dc0af95580c945fd648fae880fa815976e87b5' (par2)                            
                                                                                                  
Assuming par2 supports parallel processing                                                        
pack-56dc0af95580c945fd648fae880fa815976e87b5 ok                                                  
fsck: checking b'pack-52a1c8acc71413727963a2e225f1b1fe8ea465e3' (par2)                            
pack-52a1c8acc71413727963a2e225f1b1fe8ea465e3 ok                                                  
fsck: checking b'pack-a55ca60b16f1a5b183a488479aa2427d002927ca' (par2)                            
pack-a55ca60b16f1a5b183a488479aa2427d002927ca ok 
... 
and on and on like this, until 
fsck done.
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The beginning looks the same, but it ends with

[...]
fsck: checking b'pack-57dbb4c6e6eafd944b4ede61de841f47383e27a2' (par2)                                                                                                                                                                                                        
pack-57dbb4c6e6eafd944b4ede61de841f47383e27a2 ok                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
fsck: checking b'pack-f15eae9dcb8b08db246c4c15e26e41de8cb122d7' (par2)                                                                                                                                                                                                        
pack-f15eae9dcb8b08db246c4c15e26e41de8cb122d7 ok                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
fsck: checking b'pack-ae68d0660bd99fc7b182610726e2a8299c722a5c' (par2)                                                                                                                                                                                                        
pack-ae68d0660bd99fc7b182610726e2a8299c722a5c ok                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
fsck: checking b'pack-ba4b29b5e5b54a7059aa88c67aa2f62c73a782e1' (git)                                                                                                                                                                                                         
You must specify a list of files when creating.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
b'pack-ba4b29b5e5b54a7059aa88c67aa2f62c73a782e1' par2 create: failed (3)                                                                                                                                                                                                      
fsck: checking b'pack-62af47bbdc005036cb2a256cb327572ec08cbd6b' (git)                                                                                                                                                                                                         
pack-ba4b29b5e5b54a7059aa88c67aa2f62c73a782e1 failed                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
You must specify a list of files when creating.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
b'pack-62af47bbdc005036cb2a256cb327572ec08cbd6b' par2 create: failed (3)                                                                                                                                                                                                      
pack-62af47bbdc005036cb2a256cb327572ec08cbd6b failed                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
fsck: checking b'pack-4f7578d9ef0c08ad9adc0406af8a59658810c069' (git)                                                                                                                                                                                                         
You must specify a list of files when creating.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
b'pack-4f7578d9ef0c08ad9adc0406af8a59658810c069' par2 create: failed (3)                                                                                                                                                                                                      
pack-4f7578d9ef0c08ad9adc0406af8a59658810c069 failed                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
fsck: checking b'pack-cdf78d56db5ecda26cb5056a62c261f7a168bd29' (git)                                                                                                                                                                                                         
You must specify a list of files when creating.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
b'pack-cdf78d56db5ecda26cb5056a62c261f7a168bd29' par2 create: failed (3)                                                                                                                                                                                                      
pack-cdf78d56db5ecda26cb5056a62c261f7a168bd29 failed                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
fsck: checking b'pack-0a9adcc81de68c9ede1a14c320505d9cc7021517' (git)                                                                                                                                                                                                         
You must specify a list of files when creating.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
b'pack-0a9adcc81de68c9ede1a14c320505d9cc7021517' par2 create: failed (3)                                                                                                                                                                                                      
pack-0a9adcc81de68c9ede1a14c320505d9cc7021517 failed                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
fsck: checking b'pack-22c433ebf0e774182f3f2d7d723aede088850888' (git)                                                                                                                                                                                                         
You must specify a list of files when creating.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
b'pack-22c433ebf0e774182f3f2d7d723aede088850888' par2 create: failed (3)                                                                                                                                                                                                      
fsck done.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
pack-22c433ebf0e774182f3f2d7d723aede088850888 failed

I guess that something changed for the backups after September 25, perhaps with an update of kup, bup, or par2cmdline.

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The output is:

error: repository b'/home/peter/.bup/' does not exist (see "bup help init")

Seems like some essential stuff is missing.

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@peerwal: You have to add the directory with -d to the command line as in your initial log output.

8

i would try running

bup gc -v --unsafe

and see if it discards any of those failed files, otherwise you can either delete them manually by navigating the folder where the backups are sent.

otherwise i’m afraid in these cases i’ve had to resort to deleting the archive and letting it rebuild.

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you need to specify a destination folder in the GUI, preferably on a separate disk from where your /home folder or external storage.

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The destination path was correct. couldn`t findout whathe problem was, so I created a new backup plan and everything is working fine again. Thanks for your support anyway.

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