Restoring from Duplicity -- frustration.

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On 16.03.2014 20:05, Bill Case wrote:
> 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.
> 

Duplicity-talk -- Discussion of the backup program duplicity
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