Re: [Duplicity-talk] Restore question

[Kenneth Loafman]

I doubt you have the paradigm wrong, but duplicity does try to do things
in a safe manner, so restoring over existing files is not normal for it.

...Ken

Dylan Martin wrote:
> Thank you!
> 
> Am I doing something unusual?  I would have thought what I was doing
> was common place.  This makes me worry that I'm doing it wrong, IE I
> have the wrong paradigm in my head.
> 
> Thanks again!
> -Dylan
> 
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Dylan Martin wrote:
>>> Hi, I've recently started using duplicity and today I'm trying to do
>>> my first restore.  I'm attempting to restore an entire machine.  I'm
>>> accustomed to using tar.  While not technically correct, the
>>> simplified story is I've booted to a CD, partitioned out my disk,
>>> formatted the filesystems and mounted them all and now I'm trying to
>>> restore.  This means there are existing directories within the
>>> filesystem, but duplicity gets angry about overwriting existing files.
>>>
>>> To clarify, I have a destination dir /mnt/machine.  Within that are
>>> mount points for /mnt/machine/usr, /mnt/machine/var etc...  If I try
>>> to restore to /mnt/machine, duplicity exits and says it won't
>>> overwrite an existing file.
>>>
>>> Here's the duplicity command I'm running (minus --scp-command,
>>> --sftp-command, actual host names etc..)
>>> I can get a collection status, so I know my sftp/scp stuff is working.
>>>
>>> duplicity -v9 --no-encryption scp://address@hidden/duplicity /mnt/foo
>>>
>>> How does one restore an entire machine with multiple mount points?
>> Add the --force option to allow duplicity to overwrite existing files
>> and directories.
>>
>> ...Ken
>>
>>
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