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I crashed my ubuntu installation and reinstalled windows. However I had backintime installed and it took some snapshots which I still have on my HD. I tried to install it on a ubuntu in a virtualbox, but did not see my old snapshots, even when I pointed it to my old snapshot location.

Can someone please help to get my data back?

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Old versions of BackInTime (< 1.1.0) where a bit tricky if you want to restore files on a different machine (with different host/user name). Please install the current version from our PPA. This is much more user friendly. It comes with a restore function for the config and won't need to trick the host/user name anymore.

Open a Terminal with CTRL+ALT+T and type:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bit-team/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install backintime-qt4

Now you can either restore the old config with the Restore Config button in Settings or just delete the current config (rm ~/.config/backintime/config in Terminal). BackInTime will automatically search for the old config on next start.

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