Asl-menu: Restore node from backup at backup.allstarlink.org does not work

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From asl-menu: Restoring a node from a backup I make at backup.allstarlink.org has
never EVER worked for me.
I’m able to backup a node with no errors.
When I go to restore enter node number and password, it shows the backup file but when you
Try to restore-
Always get "There was an error in the file transfer (exit code 1).
I’ve tried this at different times with different nodes and always the same problem.
I am 100% certain I am using the correct node number and password.
Backups always take.
Restores have never worked for me.
I have always have had to rebuild the node from scratch or restore from a backup on a local filesystem which always works fine.
This would be really convenient if it worked.
What could be the problem?
This should just work.
I have also tried updating/simplifying the password.
Which didn’t help.

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Do you have any errors you can share? I’ve personally never encountered a problem with it.

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That is the only error I get (on screen).
“There was an error in the file transfer (exit code 1)”
Is that a particular log I should look at?
I took a really quick look around and it’s not obvious to me where this failure might be recorded.

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There’s not much rocket science involved with the asl-backup-menu operations. When you select an archive to restore we download it to the /var/asl-backups directory and then restore w/tar. We use wget to get a list of archives from the server and to copy the archive from the server.

Maybe try starting the restore using :

sudo bash -x /usr/bin/asl-backup-menu

If nothing else, you will see what commands are being executed.

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Thanks- will try that and see.

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Nope, it runs so fast you can’t see anything you see a frame flash at maybe 1/60th of a second…
I’ll literally need to record video and capture that frame to see it.
So I’ll try that next.

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When you exit the script the verbose shell output should remain.

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Thanks that was helpful.
I can try manually creating the local directory if it does not exist and try again.
This seems to indicate the directory may not exist or permissions are not set correctly.

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Yep, directory did not exist…
Kind of an easy fix there.
It works now.
Should have already been there correct?

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Oops
Yes
…
Yes, the directory should have first been created before downloading the archive. I’ll have a fix in the next release :slight_smile:

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