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

[edgar . soldin]

On 12.05.2020 11:37, Andrew Wood via Duplicity-talk wrote:
>
>>duplicity list-current-files 
>>file:///run/media/awood/MyPassport/Deja-Vu-Back-up > 
>>/run/media/awood/MyPassport/USB-Restore/dup-log.txt
>
> which has no --time parameter, and I try and find an entry for the USB volume 
> '7160-75C1' then there's no reference other than a couple of status file - 
> like this one:
>
> home/awood/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/uuid-7160-75C1-e7c29a79.log
>
> I also tried this is the --time "03-27-2020" instead and there's the same 
> result - no other reference to the USB than that above.

hey Andrew,

check the documentation of accepted time formats 
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/vers8/duplicity.1.html#sect8

you may also use intervals like e.g. 30D (30 days ago)

> For example, if I try something like this as was suggested:
>
> duplicity --file-to-restore  /run/media/awood/7160-75C1/ 
> file:///run/media/awood/MyPassport/Deja-Vu-Back-up 
> /run/media/awood/MyPassport/USB-Restore-7160-75C1
>
> This man entry for duplicity (https://linux.die.net/man/1/duplicity) suggests 
> --file-to-restore takes a folder name. If I specify the root for the folder 
> then that should work, shouldn't it? Hence the '/' on the volume name for the 
> USB.

'-file-to-restore' takes folder's or file's names. whatever it finds with that 
name in the backup it restores. so yeah, looks good. the trailing slash 
shouldn't be needed.

good luck ..ede/duply.net