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

[edgar . soldin]

On 13.05.2020 09:59, Andrew Wood via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> Hello Edgar/ Nate/ everyone
> 
> Thanks for you help and assistance. Here's the output of the two commands as 
> requested:
> 
> 1)
> 
> [awood@localhost ~]$ duplicity collection-status 
> file:///run/media/awood/MyPassport/Deja-Vu-Back-up
> Last full backup date: Thu Mar 26 09:21:33 2020
> Collection Status
> -----------------
> Connecting with backend: BackendWrapper
> Archive directory: 
> /home/awood/.cache/duplicity/d8a1ed559e366bb0ccdf1d4f1d1954b1
> 
> Found 4 secondary backup chains.
> Secondary chain 1 of 4:
> -------------------------
> Chain start time: Tue Mar 19 08:49:48 2019
> Chain end time: Thu Jun 13 08:29:32 2019
> Number of contained backup sets: 13
> Total number of contained volumes: 857
>  Type of backup set:                            Time:   Number of volumes:
>                 Full         Tue Mar 19 08:49:48 2019               692
>          Incremental         Thu Mar 21 08:45:13 2019                 2
SNIP

looks healthy so far

> 
> Found primary backup chain with matching signature chain:
> -------------------------
> Chain start time: Thu Mar 26 09:21:33 2020
> Chain end time: Thu Apr 30 09:36:18 2020
> Number of contained backup sets: 7
> Total number of contained volumes: 1187
>  Type of backup set:                            Time:   Number of volumes:
>                 Full         Thu Mar 26 09:21:33 2020               884
>          Incremental         Thu Apr  2 09:23:45 2020                 1
>          Incremental         Thu Apr  9 09:49:48 2020                 1
>          Incremental         Thu Apr 16 11:53:39 2020                 1
>          Incremental         Mon Apr 20 13:37:06 2020               292

the above looks like suddenly there was a lot more to backup. maybe the stick 
was reattached? it actually seems to be the date we are listing files from. 
note 2020/04/21 is between the backup's date and the next one's.

>          Incremental         Thu Apr 23 09:20:53 2020                 1
>          Incremental         Thu Apr 30 09:36:18 2020                 7
> -------------------------
> No orphaned or incomplete backup sets found.
> 
> 2)
> 
> duplicity list-current-files --time 2020/04/21 
> file:///run/media/awood/MyPassport/Deja-Vu-Back-up
> 
> The output of this is huge 64,725 lines (using wc -l)!... shall I attach the 
> output file? But I note that it includes references to both 
> run/media/awood/7160-75C1 files and also home/awood which is a good sign I 
> guess.

nope, not needed. it's important if it lists the files you are missing! if so 
try 

  duplicity --time 2020/04/21 --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-restored 

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