[C2] Restore Backup from XA2Plus on C2

[AndyWuest]

Hi,

i would to restore my backup from my old device XA2 Plus to the C2 using dropbox.
I tried this by first creating a backup on my C2 to get the directory on dropbox. Then i moved
my XA2 Backup to the C2 backup directory and tried to restore it. The result was:

• restoring accounts failed accounts are there, but all password are missing, so the accounts are not yet usable.
• Calendar contained some entries (not check if all), but looks ok on first sight.
• SMS Messages look ok.
• Browser Bookmarks also look ok

Restoration failed with error: “Error: cannot load Notes”

Contacts, Notes and all the custom stuff via MyBackup is missing.

How can i check why notes restoration failed? How to fix that (do i have to modify the backup zip somehow?) Removing notes - so the restoration process continues?

Help is appreciated. Cheers,
Andreas

[attah]

Is this perhaps the classic nemo/defaultuser having leaked into the backup?
Then you can temporarily symlink one to the other.
Search for more info - other threads exist.

[AndyWuest]

The export directory looks ok to me - no user names or whatsoever - maybe an SQL statement is failing

[sebix]

@AndyWuest

restoring accounts failed accounts are there, but all password are missing, so the accounts are not yet usable.

The passwords are intentionally excluded from backups, so this is expected behaviour.

[AndyWuest]

Problem is the nemo user in the backup file of the notes: Using a symlink as described here worked for me:

[3.4.0 onwards?] Restore backup fails when restoring notes (here: from Xperia X to Xperia 10 II )

After some investigation I saw /home/nemo in one of the paths that was being used during the restore of the Notes. Adding a temporary symlink during the restore helped me get Notes restored properly. Add symlink (using developer terminal or via SSH connection) $ devel-su # ln -s /home/defaultuser /home/nemo Run the restore procedure Then I removed the symlink $ devel-su # rm /home/nemo Maybe this helps someone with the same issue as me.