Restoring from Duplicity -- frustration.
Bill Case
billlinux at rogers.com
Sun Mar 16 21:56:18 UTC 2014
On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 15:05 -0400, 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.
>
The backup files I want to retrieve are in:
/run/media/wcase/LinuxBUb/bill19BU
The particular files I want are :
/home/bill/.local/share/gnote
especially those saved after Mar 11, 2013
I want to restore them to 1 of 2 files, it doesn't matter which :
1) /home/bill/.local/share/gnote or
2) /run/media/wcase/LinuxBUb/bill-20Restored
For duplicity --restore -> "Command line error: Expected 2 args, got 1"
I don't understand what argument I am missing.
--
Regards William Case,
Fedora 19, Gnome 3.8.4,
Evo 3.8.5, Emacs 24x.
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