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

[Bill Case]

Thank you Kenneth Loafman;

I got my files back.  Once you showed me that the Duplicity magic was
only .tar.gz I started to understand what I was doing.

On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 06:52 -0500, Kenneth Loafman wrote:

When I gunzip, the command failed to unzip a couple of files; I don't
know why.  I then gunzip ed them indvidually and after that it was
smooth sailing. 

> Since this is a full backup, manual recovery is possible, but you'll
> have to be careful.  Here's how:
> 
> # mkdir work save
> # cp *20140311T153635Z* save
> # mv *20140311T153635Z* work
> 
> # cd work
> # gunzip *.gz
> # for f in *.difftar; do echo $f; tar tv $f; done >& filelist
> 
> 
> At this point you will need to look in filelist for the two files you
> want to recover, then use tar to extract them.  The files may be split
> across difftar files, in which case you will need to concatenate them
> manually.
> 

Thanks

-- 
Regards William Case,
Fedora 20, Gnome 3.10.1,
Evo 3.10.4, Emacs 24x.