Question #173724 on Duplicity changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/173724
ubuaverill posted a new comment: On 10/23/2011 05:15 PM, edso wrote: > Your question #173724 on Duplicity changed: > https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/173724 > > edso posted a new comment: > On 23.10.2011 15:10, ubuaverill wrote: >> Question #173724 on Duplicity changed: >> https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/173724 >> >> Status: Answered => Solved >> >> ubuaverill confirmed that the question is solved: >> Solution to problem was to use, for example, the full path in "file-to- >> restore": /home/meUser/mydata.dat rather than just mydata.dat. >> >> The documentation is somewhat unclear, at least to me, about the how >> much of the path to use for file restoring. >> > could you point to the unclear docs for improvement? > > to be clear, the relative path of the file to your backup src root is > needed. how else would you identify a file in the backup? > > ..ede/duply.net > Hi, Thank you again for your help to solve my restore problem. Now that I know what 'path' means I feel somewhat stupid. However, below is from the duplicity man page: --file-to-restore path This option may be given in restore mode, causing only _path_ to be restored instead of the entire contents of the backup archive. _path_ should be given relative to the root of the directory backed up. My interpretation of this was this: since I backed my home directory (eg /home/myHomeDir) it seemed to me that path meant any directories under /home/MyHomeDir (eg .thunderbird, myData, etc.) would all that is necessary with the 'restore file' option because the top of the 'current file listing' begins with /home/myHomeDir, hence assuming duplicity would 'know' where to start. I see know that was a foolish assumption. Generally the duplicity man pages are understandable; it does help greatly novice or advanced beginners of Linux to have examples to work from, at least for the more commonly used functions. Regards --brian -- You received this question notification because you are a member of duplicity-team, which is an answer contact for Duplicity. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~duplicity-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~duplicity-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
