Re: [Duplicity-talk] Restoring a deleted file when not knowing, when it was deleted

[Kenneth Loafman]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Is it possible to get a list of all the backups that have been taken and
> also get a list of all the files that have been part of this backup?
> So, is it possible to get a listing of all the files that are part of
> the backup taken 3D ago?

Yes, using your example test case, here's the method:

--- from the full backup -- you can see file1/2 backed up
$ gpg -d \
duplicity-full-signatures.2007-05-07T07\:16\:02-05\:00.sigtar.gpg | \
tar tv
drwxr-xr-x ken/ken           0 2007-05-07 07:15 snapshot/
-rw-r--r-- ken/ken          12 2007-05-07 07:15 signature/file1
-rw-r--r-- ken/ken          12 2007-05-07 07:15 signature/file2

-- from the partial backup - no changes, but file1 deleted
$ gpg -d \
duplicity-new-signatures.2007-05-07T07\:16\:02-05\:00.to.2007-05-07T07\:16\:27-05\:00.sigtar.gpg\ 
| tar tv
drwxr-xr-x ken/ken           0 2007-05-07 07:16 snapshot/
---------- user/group        0 1969-12-31 18:00 deleted/file1

Each full-sigs file contains the sigs for a full backup and each 
new-sigs file contains the sigs for a partial backup, so using these 
files you should be able to tell when file1 was deleted.

...Thanks,
...Ken