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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