My short-term workaround to recover old backup files with umlauts after UnicodeDecodeError:
export LANG=en_US.utf8 export LANGUAGE= export LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" export LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8" export LC_TIME="en_US.utf8" export LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8" export LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8" export LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8" export LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_NAME="en_US.utf8" export LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8" export LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8" export LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8" export LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8" export LC_ALL= deja-dup --restore folderWithUmlauts -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1377873 Title: deja-dup fails to restore missing files, that contain "german umlaut" (ä,ö,ü,Ä,Ö,Ü). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/deja-dup/+bug/1377873/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs