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

[Nate Eldredge]

On Mon, 11 May 2020, Andrew Wood via Duplicity-talk wrote:

> Hi Nate/ everyone
>
> Thanks for the suggestion below re. using a temporary directory, however the 
> temporary directory only contains the restored /home directory and not the 
> contents of the USB. Both locations were included as places for making 
> back-ups to Deja-Vu, and indeed duplicity indicates that a full back-up was 
> made of the USB - on 26 March as in my initial email to the list below.

Oh.  The option --time asks for the most recent backup *at or before* the 
given time, and when you specify only a date it's interpreted as midnight 
(00:00h).  So if the backup was actually made sometime *on* March 26, then 
you're getting an earlier backup.  Perhaps you want --time "03-27-2020" 
instead.

You may want to use "duplicity list-current-files" with --time to see if 
your desired files are there, as of the specified date, before going 
through with the restore.

> If I use the --force option as suggested then will it actually make any 
> difference except restoring my /home directory again? More to the point, I 
> don't need to restore the /home directory - it was already restored and 
> indeed into the hard disk.

Yeah, --force won't affect which files are restored - it's just to allow 
you to restore into a directory which is not empty, potentially 
overwriting anything that's there.  Using the temporary directory is 
safer.

> It's the USB which is to be restored. I don't see how I can specify only 
> restoring the USB and all its contents. Any suggestions? Surely, I need to 
> specify the USB in the parameters to duplicity?

By default everything in the backup is restored.  If you want to select 
only a particular file or director, use the --file-to-restore option.

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Nate Eldredge
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