Home / ubuntu / Questions / 520152
Accepted
Lonnie Best
Asked: 2014-09-05 09:27:11 +0800 CST

Extract a Folder from Duplicity Archive

  • 772

Using the duplicity command, I need to specify the following:

  • a specific folder to restore
  • indicate time and date from which to restore
  • indicate the destination to restore to

How can I specify these 3 things using the duplicity command?

restore

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    That's correct, even if it tells "--file-to-restore", you can enter any file or folder path (without the "/" sign at the beginning of it, for example "temp/logs") at "foldername" and any "destination folder" (with the "/"sign at the beginning of it, for example "/temp/logs") to the command.

    Sample: I want to restore my /temp/logs which is backed-up 3 days ago into the same folder:

    duplicity -t 3D --file-to-restore temp/logs file:///backup/location /temp/logs

    Sample2: I want to restore my file /temp/logs/app-error.log which is backed-up 3 days ago into the same folder:

    duplicity -t 3D --file-to-restore temp/logs/app-error.log file:///backup/location /temp/logs/app-error.log

    Note that you have to give a full destination path for the file.

    Sample3: My backup stays at an ftp server=my.ftp.server with user=root at the location=my_backup, the same scenario with #1:

    duplicity -t 3D --file-to-restore temp/logs sftp://[email protected]/my_backup /temp/logs
    • 25 
  2. duplicity -t 3D --file-to-restore <foldername> file:///backup/location <destination folder>

    Duplicity enters restore mode because the URL comes before the local directory.

    -t 3D 3 days ago

    If you want to check more information, here are useful links depending on the version:

    • 10