A full day trying a restore with TKLBAM ... non way to get it.

Still trying to make tklbam restore working...

I also tried to use the "limits" to exclude the path who sowed in the error message.

Here is the command I run via command line:

tklbam-restore 6 --noninteractive --time='2016-01-25' --limits="/var/www/shop.public_html/var/cache/lang_cache" --skip-packages

Always the same error:

> tklbam-restore 6 --noninteractive --time='2016-01-25' --skip-packages
Executing Duplicity to download s3://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/tklbam-xyuyxuyuyuyuy to /tmp/tklbam-3FCXZd
==============================================================================================================

// started squid: caching downloaded backup archives to /var/cache/tklbam/restore

# duplicity --restore-time=2016-01-25 --archive-dir=/var/cache/duplicity --s3-unencrypted-connection s3://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/tklbam-xyxuyxyxyxyxyxy /tmp/tklbam-3FCXZd
Synchronizing remote metadata to local cache...
Copying duplicity-inc.20160203T011637Z.to.20160204T010114Z.manifest.gpg to local cache.
Copying duplicity-new-signatures.20160203T011637Z.to.20160204T010114Z.sigtar.gpg to local cache.
Last full backup date: Mon Jan 25 00:58:28 2016

// stopping squid: download complete so caching no longer required

Restoring system from backup extract at /tmp/tklbam-3FCXZd
==========================================================

FILES - restoring files, ownership and permissions
--------------------------------------------------

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/tklbam-restore", line 553, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/tklbam-restore", line 526, in main
restore.files()
File "/usr/lib/tklbam/restore.py", line 202, in files
changes = Changes.fromfile(extras.fsdelta, limits)
File "/usr/lib/tklbam/changes.py", line 184, in fromfile
changes = [ Change.parse(line) for line in fh.readlines() ]
File "/usr/lib/tklbam/changes.py", line 127, in parse
return op2class[op].fromline(line[2:])
File "/usr/lib/tklbam/changes.py", line 81, in fromline
return cls(*args)
File "/usr/lib/tklbam/changes.py", line 92, in __init__
self.uid = self.stat.st_uid
File "/usr/lib/tklbam/changes.py", line 67, in stat
self._stat = os.lstat(self.path)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/www/shop.public_html/var/cache/lang_cache/C_GET_"\'");|]*{' 

Can anybody help me?

At the moment I am using a backup who don't seam to work.

Do I have to use AWS snapshot for my backups? Or what else?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Anyway, I am not at all sure about what the issue is and TBH am surprised that using the limits didn't work around it. It makes me wonder if the file in question is actually missing from your backup and that's what is causing the issue?

Looking at the path; it is possible that you could actually exclude that cache location anyway. Most webapps do not need their cache backedup as it can be reproduced. It may be worth trying to exclude the /var/www/shop.public_html/var/cache/ path from your backup.

Assuming that this is testing, then perhaps it's worth doing a new clean full backup (with the cache excluded) and trying the restore again? Obviously if you are trying to restore because you need the backup then that is a different matter. I suggest that you try downloading the backup first using the --raw-download switch, then try restoring the downloaded files. Like this:

tklbam-restore 1 --raw-download=/tmp/mybackup
tklbam-restore /tmp/mybackup

Also you mention in your first post that you ran out of room. You do need a fair bit of space. Essentially it downloads the compressed backup; it then extracts the archive; it then copies it across keeping track of any overwritten files (so they can be restored if you choose to rollback).