[Duplicity-talk] Restoring from/to a USB stick

[Andrew Wood]

Hello

Recently, I installed the version of Fedora 32 onto my PC. I'd been using 
Fedora 31 and Deja Vu backed up my files on a weekly basis. This included my 
home directory and also a USB stick which was mostly but not always plugged 
into the machine.

After installing Fedora 32 then I tried to restore the PC and the USB stick. 
While the PC restored fine - thank-you so much for that - the USB wasn't 
restored. I should say that all the data on the USB stick had been deleted 
prior to the attempt to restore it ie it was completely blank.

I thought that perhaps the USB stick didn't restore as when the incremental 
back-ups were made by duplicity then if there's no USB stick this is regarded 
as all the files have been deleted. It's a guess!

I understand that there was a full back-up of the USB on 26 March 2020 so I 
tried to restore the USB (/run/media/awood/7160-75C1) with this:

> duplicity restore --time "03-26-2020" 
> file:///run/media/awood/MyPassport/Deja-Vu-Back-up /run/media/awood/7160-75C1

But I get this response:

> Restore destination directory /run/media/awood/7160-75C1 already exists.
> Will not overwrite.

Any suggestions of how I should proceed?

Thanks for your help and assistance,

Andrew