I am trying to restore an Aptik backup from the Host to the Guest Virtualbox machine, and I receive this error message:

“Failed to read backup

Failed to read backup repository

Section: Home Directory Data-[BORG_ERROR]

E:Failed to create/acquire the lock /media/nancy/625c4c26-4300-446d-ac44-5fb4b8994d04/lock.exclusive (time out).”

I never have heard of Borg or locks, and I have only been using Linux Mint user for a couple of years, just reading terminal commands to get by from a list I have gathered over time. Otherwise, I don’t know what I am doing and am just faking it.

With that in mind, can you offer some specific terminal commands I can use to resolve this?

Thanks so much.

Nancy

But, I did the…

$ sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update

This is what I got in the last step of the terminal install steps above with the:

$ sudo apt-get install aptik-gtk

I Get…
Cannot find the file adtik-gtj

And can’t figure out why as I tried…

$ sudo apt install aptik-gtk, 

also and got some…

Cannot find the file adtik-gtj

I’m stumped!

But thank you for your great “how-to!”

@Tobiz,

I never used Kubuntu 14.04, so no idea what this package isn’t avaiable to install. Also just to confirm, have you added the following PPA to system?

$ sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update

If yes, could you do a quick search for the package aptik using following command.

$ sudo apt policy aptik
$ sudo apt policy ptik-gtk

Shame since aptik-gui sounds just what I want to migrate from 14.04 on my old machine to 18.04 on new machine.

Thanks @Ravi !

I should’ve known better than to rely on a 4 year old blog post …