Missing Backups

Installation
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I have my backups set to daily and to keep 30 generations. I backup locally and to the cloud. I also backup when I do any updates.

My Rasperry Pi SD card recently died a horrible death in a power failure. I could not restore any local backups, as the supervisor would not load. I also could not restore from the CLI, as there was no internet.

I spent two days trying to get some data off the SD card, but it was not recognized in Windows or Linux.

I put HA on a new SD card and restored a backup I found from January, which was pretty much useless of course. I was digging around after the restore and found a backup from the last core update. I restored this and I’m pretty much up-to-date.

WTH are my 30 days of backups? There were a bunch on the SD card, which I could see from the CLI, but not restore. I didn’t see my cloud backups though, other than the one from January and the the last core backup.

I’ve added Google Drive to my backup locations and I will be moving away from the Raspberry Pi. I know about booting the Pi off an SSD, but for the money I’ll just switch to a mini PC.

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You will need a Linux PC, or the freeware Diskinternals Linux Reader software if using windows to read the SD card partitions.

There are a couple of locations to check listed in this topic: How to access the Backup Files via SD Card - #6 by zymotik

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Thanks, but my linux PC says there is no media in the device. Both Windows and Linux can see the card reader, but no SD card.

I’m surprised, since i could could see the backups in the CLI. I just couldn’t restore them.

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Any Linux Gurus out there?

I purchased a third USB reader and the SD card popped up in Mint Linux running on a Windows flash drive. I found 44 backups on the SD card. I tried using mkdir and mounting my Mint USB drive to the new directory, but it comes up as locked.