I made some questionable mistakes with my partition creations when installing my linux workstation, so I remade the whole installation feeling confident that I have backups of /home/USER.
Reinstalled linux and downloaded the urbackup client. It connected automatically because I used the same name of my computer.
I tried downloading the whole /home directory. Seemed to work fine but when trying to open the zip file, it said it was not a zip file or in “and old format”. I thought it had something to do with me missing software to read the file so I tried installing different old zip programs, but with no success.
I then tried to download only the /home/USER/.settings folder to a zip file, and that worked!
Lucky for me, I could activate RESTORE=server-confirms
in /etc/default/urbackupclient
and that restored the whole /home directory when pressing the restore button in gui, but why is this happening?
I was lucky I could do a restore this time, how do I fix this?