Questions for migration to a new vps

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hi,
i testing the restore to a new vps. i’m using local backup on vps.

I have setup the new vps.
upload all files of my old vps where located in backup/encrypted to the new vps /home/elliryc/back/vps

i don’t undertstand this section:

export PASSPHRASE=$(cat your_backup_secret_key_file.txt)
sudo -E duplicity restore --force file:///path/to/copied/files /home/user-data/

Thanks for your help.

Best,

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Where did you upload the secret_key.txt file to? You need to replace your_backup_secret_key_file.txt in that command with the actual location of the file on the server.

the second command will be:

sudo -E duplicity restore --force file:///home/elliryc/back/vps /home/user-data/

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hi,
thanks for your reply.

here the output:

elliryc@vps:/home/user-data/backup$ export PASSPHRASE=$(cat secret_key.txt)
elliryc@vps:/home/user-data/backup$
elliryc@vps:/home/user-data/backup$
elliryc@vps:/home/user-data/backup$ sudo -E duplicity restore --force file:///home/elliryc/back/vps/ /home/user-data/
[sudo] password for elliryc:
Synchronizing remote metadata to local cache…
Copying duplicity-full-signatures.20231108T021710Z.sigtar.gpg to local cache.
GPGError: GPG Failed, see log below:
===== Begin GnuPG log =====
gpg: directory ‘/home/elliryc/.gnupg’ created
gpg: keybox ‘/home/elliryc/.gnupg/pubring.kbx’ created
gpg: AES256.CFB encrypted data
gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase
gpg: decryption failed: Bad session key
===== End GnuPG log =====

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You have to copy over the secret_key.txt file from the old server and place it somewhere outside of the /home/user-data/ directory on the new server like you did with your backups. You are trying to use the secret_key.txt file from the new server. That is not going to work.

And do not run these commands from within the /home/user-data directory.

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no i have copied the old secret_key.txt to the new vps.

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That is not what your message says. Actually, if you copied the old secret_key.txt file over to the new MiaB, you have overwritten the key, and potentially have destroyed the ability to create backups for yourself.

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ok i found my error:

i haven’t copy the secret_key.txt but the content of the file to a new file named same.

the gpg checks failed for that.

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