Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity is push/pull backup?

[Tim Riemenschneider]

Am 05.08.2011 18:19, schrieb address@hidden:
> On 05.08.2011 15:21, pradyumna dash wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am facing some issues while restoring files.  Can any one give me an exact 
>> syntax, and explain a bit.
> did you consult the man page?
> http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html
Did you yourself ;-) ?
>> E.g :  I want to restore the /etc/hosts file, i have taken the backup of 
>> /etc but want to restore hosts file
> this one is a bit unintuitive that's true
>
> duplicity --file-to-restore /etc/hosts [options] source_url /etc/hosts.backup 
Thats wrong, IMO that has to be:

duplicity --file-to-restore etc/hosts [options] source_url /etc/hosts.backup 

(no leading slash)
or maybe even

duplicity --file-to-restore hosts [options] source_url /etc/hosts.backup 

(if the backup was made with "duplicity [....] /etc backupurl" instead
of something like "duplicity [....] --include etc --exclude .... /
backupurl")

Or with the example from the manpage ;-) :

[....]

If the above is run repeatedly, the first will be a full backup, and
subsequent ones will be incre‐
mental. To force a full backup, use the full action:

duplicity full /home/me scp://address@hidden/some_dir

Now suppose we accidentally delete /home/me and want to restore it the
way it was at the time of
last backup:

duplicity scp://address@hidden/some_dir /home/me

Duplicity enters restore mode because the URL comes before the local
directory. If we wanted to
restore just the file "Mail/article" in /home/me as it was three days
ago into
/home/me/restored_file:

duplicity -t 3D --file-to-restore Mail/article scp://address@hidden/some_dir
/home/me/restored_file

>  
That is, the option to --file-to-restore is a relative path, relative to
the root of the backup.
(But I often make that mistake, too ;-) )

cu
Tim Riemenschneider

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