Re: [Duplicity-talk] Which backups include a particular file?

[Kenneth Loafman]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Tom Limoncelli <address@hidden> wrote:

Suppose I have daily backups for the last year. (Not that it should
matter, but assume "--full-if-older-than 3W" was used).

A user tells me, "I had a file called data/stuff.txt which existed for
about 10 days.  I don't remember which 10 days, but could you find it
and restore it?"

Obviously I can do "duplicity  collection-status" to see that backups
were done every day.  However, is there a way to see which of those
days the file he mentions existed?

That's really not possible unless it was contained in a full backup.  '--list-current-files' in conjunction with '-t datetime' will give you the current list by datetime, but if the file was created and deleted during the three week window between backups, then it's gone.

...Ken