Question #173724 on Duplicity changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/173724
edso posted a new comment: On 27.10.2011 13:41, ubuaverill wrote: > 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. your welcome >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. what do you mean, could you give an example on how you thought it works? > > 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. > i will add a note that the path is usually the relative path (it has no slash in the beginning) listed when doing a list-current-files. btw: you can deliver a time to list-current-files to search for older backups of the files. ..ede -- 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 : duplicity-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~duplicity-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
