Re: [Duplicity-talk] Restore Question

[Kenneth Loafman]

Jon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have somehow lost the knowledge on how to perform a restore with
> Duplicity. I recall doing a test restore some weeks ago and after some
> moderate mucking about, I figured it out. Sadly, I did not document it
> and now it appears that I have become so old that I cannot recall what I
> did.
> 
> Duplicity status shows me (snipped);
> 
> Thu Jun  1 23:59:24 2006 Documents/personal/eht1
> Tue May 23 08:42:30 2006 Documents/personal/me.asc
> Fri Jun 16 10:36:30 2006 Documents/personal/secondcup
> Sat Mar 22 10:10:24 2008 Documents/personal/signature.gif
> Thu Jun 12 10:04:45 2008 Documents/personal/signpermit.pdf
> 
> I want to restore the personal directory to 07Sep08 and am attempting to
> do so as such:
> 
> duplicity scp://address@hidden/home/jdw/Documents/personal
> /home/jdw/Documents/personal/07sep08
> 
> Which follows the example on the man page:
> 
> duplicity scp://address@hidden/some_dir /home/me
> 
> Which is an attempt to restore the personal dir into the local 07sep08
> dir. However, no manner of twisting the restore command will work for
> me. I receive:
> 
> Remote file or directory 'home/jdw/Documents/personal' does not exist

I think what you need is:
duplicity scp://address@hidden//home/jdw/Documents/personal

Note the double slash in '//home' - this makes it an absolute pathname
on the remote system rather than relative to your home directory.

...Ken

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