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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

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