Hi,
I also had some getting used to with "restore". There is always the "--force" switch, to overwrite stuff, but Duplicity avoids overwriting stuff by default and always works in sequencial volumes. That breaks some of my typical mental cases like thinking "if I backup A to B then I should be able to restore B to A" and "It should be reasy/fast to restore a single file". Actually you are supposed to restore on side of the original data (empty directory) and do the rest locally. Also, restoring a single file implies downloading between 1 (typical) and all volumes (rare) and, as such, the backup/restore is "optimized" for disasters and not for fine grained control.
At least these were the lessons I learned and that helped me figure out how to use duplicity in my backup scenarios.
Cheers,
Cláudio
Em 09/12/2016 07:04, "C.Enzmann via Duplicity-talk" <
address@hidden> escreveu:
Howdy.
I have working backup with ssh/scp on duplicity 0.7.10 like
Number of contained backup sets: 2
Total number of contained volumes: 2
Type of backup set: Time: Num volumes:
Full Sun Dec 4 10:36:14 2016 1
Incremental Sun Dec 4 10:43:21 2016 1
I back up a test directory /home/me/bkp_root there. Deleting the whole
directory /home/me/bkp_root and restoring it: fine.
Deleting a file, I need to use "duplicity verify --compare-data" ... to
see a difference at all - but ok, it shows missing.
But worse with 'duplicity restore --use-agent
--ssh-options="-oIdentityFile=/xyz/id_duplicity" --name=myhost
scp://address@hidden:port/BackUps/'
and anywhere any combination of '/home/me/bkp_root' and
'--file-to-restore subdir/file', with absolute or relative paths, not to
mention with wildcards, and in any order I get either
"Restore destination directory already exists. Will not overwrite."
-or-
"Command line error: restore option incompatible with inc backup."
Please, could I kindly ask for enlightenment, before I may start to rant
that a reasonable partial restore is essential but impossible that way
and calling names to this tool and yadda yadda.
Many thanks in advance & kind regards,
Chris
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