Re: [Duplicity-talk] Restore question

[Dylan Martin]

Is there any kind of a best practices scenario for restoring an entire
system?  How is it supposed to work in the ideal situation?

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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