Re: [Duplicity-talk] Exclude during restore

[edgar . soldin]

On 05.12.2012 22:14, Richard L. Houston wrote:
> All,
> 
> Apologies if this has been asked and answered. I am testing my recovery 
> process and am wondering, is --exclude not usable during restore? I have tried

correct, restore does only work on backup and verify currently. actually 
duplicity should complain if you give these options for a restore. can you give 
a full example commandline you used?

> --exclude=<dir name>
> --exclude=*<dir name>*
> --exclude <dir name>
> --exclude *<dir name>*
> 
> but the dirs in question are still restored
> 
>  I have a few dirs that are huge that I would like to exclude for parts of my 
> testing. I am using version 0.6.18 on Ubuntu 12.04.
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 

use --restore-file option, as described in manpage
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html
that at least allows you to restore one specific folder/file.

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