Re: [Duplicity-talk] What meta files are needed for listing and restoring from full backup?

[Michael Terry]

On 29 August 2011 15:22, Henrik Olsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> 1)
> What files do I need together with a set of 
> duplicity-full.xxxZ.volyyy.difftar.gpg files to be able to list it's contents 
> with list-current-files action?

Each backup set (i.e. the set of files for a given backup time) has
one sigtar file and one manifest file in addition to the difftar
volumes.

> 2)
> I'm searching for a specific folder that I no longer have on my local 
> machine. I cannot remember the exact full path, but only part of the folder 
> name. I don't know when it was removed. How do I find it in my old duplicity 
> backups? Do I use grep in list-current-files with a guess on --time, or can 
> duplicity list all seen files (over full backup timespan), so I can find the 
> last time it saw it, or?

You have to guess on --time and keep trying.  There's no "search all
backups since the beginning" functionality, unfortunately.

-mt