Move Duplicati from Asustor to QNAP - Restore files

Hi, I used to backup files using Duplicati from Asustor NAS to BackBlaze (B2).
Now, I moved on to QNAP NAS.

I need to restore files backed up on B2 to QNAP now.
I tried to restore the files directly by selecting restore from config file, seems throws various errors (especially sql-lite database error).

Due to this, do you think I should the following instead?

1. Install Duplicati on QNAP (from https://www.qnapclub.eu/ repo store) 
2. Import backup using config.json.aes file (originally created by Asustor NAS)
As the folder path no longer available on QNAP, choose a different path

3. Run Database repair
4. Once that is done, run Restore

Thanks

Yes, I would think your approach should work.

You may be able to skip step 3 if you manually copy the job-specific sqlite from your old NAS to your new one.

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Thanks for your response; unfortunately I didn’t keep the sqlite from old NAS.

One thing I noticed, when I run the restore, the ‘scanning for local blocks’ takes an ages (been running for the past 3 days to restore 408GB files) and I see no data transfer is even running as yet; is this a normal behaviour?

Personally I’m not a fan of using local blocks during restore. You can disable this by using the –no-local-blocks option.

The idea of using local blocks is to save on download cost at the expense of processing time on the local side.

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