Restoring from Duplicity -- frustration.

[Bill Case]

On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 14:55 -0400, Bill Case wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I have been at this for four or five hours over two or three days.  I
> have googled and manual studied.  My goal should be simple but it is not
> turning out that way.
> 
> I backed up regularly to a second disk sdb on a back up partition
> labeled LinuxBUb.  The backup file is label bill-19BU.  I backed up
> regularly using duplicity up to the end of December 31, 2012.  I then
> backed up again with duplicity on March 11, 2014.  In otherwords all of
> my work for 2013 is in that last back up.  
> 
> While installing Fedora 20, I managed to destroy my Fedora 19
> installation.  Luckily, I thought, I had that last backup.
> 
> Everything that I have tried fails to restore the March 11 backup
> although I can clearly see March 11 Duplicity backup files saved with
> the December 31,2012 back ups.  
> 

P.S.  I have restored my earlier December 31,2012 with no problems.
There several project files in the 2013 backups that I need.  

I suppose I am asking either how to write the duplicity command because
I have missed something simple.  OR, some other suggestions on how to
extract those files I need by some other means.

-- 
Regards William Case,
Fedora 20, Gnome 3.8.4,
Evo 3.8.5, Emacs 24x.