Re: [Duplicity-talk] Restoring from Duplicity -- frustration.

[Tom Johnson]

Hi Bill,

From the man page:

duplicity [restore] [options] [--file-to-restore <relpath>] [--time time] source_url target_directory

So for your purposes I would think the command is:

duplicity restore --file-to-restore relative/path/to/home/bill/.local/share/gnote file:///path/to/backup /home/bill/.local/share/gnote

where relative/path/to/home/ is the path relative to the original backup location.

Let me know if you're confused.

Tom

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Bill Case <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi:

I have been at this for four or five hours over two or three days.  I
have googled and manual studied.  My goal should be simple but it is not
turning out that way.

I backed up regularly to a second disk sdb on a back up partition
labeled LinuxBUb.  The backup file is labeled bill-19BU.  I backed up
regularly using duplicity up to the end of December 31, 2012.  I then
backed up again with duplicity on March 11, 2014.  In other words all of
my work for 2013 is in that last back up.

While installing Fedora 20, I managed to destroy my Fedora 19
installation.  Luckily, I thought, I had that last backup.

Everything that I have tried fails to restore the March 11 backup
although I can clearly see March 11 Duplicity backup files saved with
the December 31,2012 back ups. I have restored my earlier December
31,2012 with no problems. There are several project files in the 2013
backups that I need.

The backup files I want to retrieve are in:
/run/media/wcase/LinuxBUb/bill19BU

The particular files I want are :
/home/bill/.local/share/gnote
especially those saved after Mar 11, 2013

I want to restore them to 1 of 2 files, it doesn't matter which :

1) /home/bill/.local/share/gnote    or
2) /run/media/wcase/LinuxBUb/bill-20Restored

]# duplicity --restore  -> "Command line error: Expected 2 args, got 1"
I don't understand what argument I am missing.

I suppose I am asking either how to write the duplicity command because
I have missed something simple.  OR, some other suggestions on how to
extract those files I need by some other means.
--
Regards William Case,
Fedora 20, Gnome 3.10.1,
Evo 3.10.4, Emacs 24x.


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