Restore after server failure

🍱 Features & apps passwords
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Hi All,

Long story, short. My original server crashed, it’s VM hosted on my homelab server. I think it was a filesystem issue that couldn’t be recovered. As per the migration documentation I built a new server and pointed it at the database, however for some reason this didn’t work. Although I could login via the Administrator account, my user accounts just wouldn’t work. So have ended up starting from scratch and migrated the data, mainly files. I can now login with my user accounts, but the need help with the Passwords apps.

Passwords is one of the apps I used pretty much daily, so I’m hoping someone can help me recover.

I have found what I believe is a backup of the passwords in appdata/passwords/autoBackups. But when I try running the restore/import commands neither work.

I’m running Nextcloud Hub 6 (27.1.1)

Thanks in advance

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Take a look at this guide and just see which option fits your case the best: Server Migration · Wiki · nextcloud / passwords · GitLab

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Like I said in my post, I’ve already tried those options and they’ve not helped. Here’s an example below.

sudo -u apache php /var/www/html/nextcloud/occ passwords:backup:import /root/2023-09-05_20-41-35.json.gz

In BackupImportCommand.php line 92:

[OCP\Files\NotFoundException]

passwords:backup:import

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That’s a file not found exception. I think that may be because the file path points to the /root/ folder which can only be accessed by root. The apache user can’t find that file.

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Thanks for the pointer, still couldn’t get the backup to restore. But have managed to resolve the issue. Manually re-added the accounts, which was a ball ache, from the phone app after setting it to airplane mode and disabling the wifi.