I lost the drive, and the Ubuntu OS installed in it, from which I created a backup using Duplicity, and I don’t know how to restore the archived files I still keep in another drive. They all follow these 4 notations
duplicity-full.20140106T111233Z.manifest duplicity-full-signatures.20140106T111233Z.sigtar.gz duplicity-full.20140106T111233Z.volxxx.difftar.gz (multiple volumes) duplicity-full.20140106T111233Z.volxxx.difftar (multiple volumes)
There’s important data I need to recover. Is there anything I can do? Would be enough to use gzip? And if so, how could I extract them all easily?
EDIT 1 Trying your suggestions, both with the restore and the –gio options, I get this text:
duplicity restore file://media/ubuntu/Toshiba\ HDD/BACKUPS/Documents/ /media/ubuntu/9fb63c8e-ecb5-4c55-b4e0-282e7b4a82ff/tmp/docs/ Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed. Last full backup date: none GnuPG passphrase: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1494, in <module> with_tempdir(main) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1488, in with_tempdir fn() File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1337, in main do_backup(action) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1422, in do_backup restore(col_stats) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 697, in restore restore_get_patched_rop_iter(col_stats)): File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 719, in restore_get_patched_rop_iter backup_chain = col_stats.get_backup_chain_at_time(time) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line 952, in get_backup_chain_at_time raise CollectionsError("No backup chains found") CollectionsError: No backup chains found
/media/ubuntu/Toshiba\ HDD/BACKUPS/Documents/ is where all the duplicity files are, and /media/ubuntu/9fb63c8e-ecb5-4c55-b4e0-282e7b4a82ff/tmp/docs/ a temporary destination folder I want to restore the files to.
EDIT 2 Corrected the missing slash in file://media…. Now I get restored files, but not exactly what I expected. There are a lot of files missing (up to 24 GB in there!)
root@ubuntu:/media/ubuntu/Toshiba HDD/BACKUPS/Documents# ls -la /tmp/docs/home/luis/ total 4176 drwx------ 16 root root 1000 Jun 30 19:13 . drwx------ 3 root root 60 Jun 30 19:13 .. drwx------ 3 1000 1000 60 Oct 23 2013 .activestate drwxr-xr-x 2 1000 1000 60 Oct 23 2013 .ActiveState drwx------ 3 1000 1000 60 Dec 28 2012 .adobe -rw------- 1 1000 1000 32120 Jan 4 12:56 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 220 Dec 28 2012 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 3637 Dec 28 2012 .bashrc drwx------ 3 1000 1000 60 Jan 3 14:01 .cache drwxr-xr-x 3 1000 1000 60 Nov 16 2013 .cddb -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 740 Jan 10 2013 .cola drwx------ 3 1000 1000 60 Dec 29 2012 .compiz drwxrwxr-x 3 1000 1000 80 Oct 1 2013 .composer drwx------ 46 1000 1000 1020 Dec 8 2013 .config drwx------ 3 1000 1000 60 Dec 28 2012 .dbus -rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 25 Jul 13 2013 .dmrc drwx------ 3 1000 1000 380 Jan 6 10:31 .dropbox drwxr-xr-x 6 1000 1000 1660 Dec 17 2013 .dropbox-dist drwx------ 3 root root 60 Jun 30 19:13 .eclipse -rw------- 1 1000 1000 50282 Jan 6 10:29 .ICEauthority drwxrwxr-x 14 1000 1000 340 Dec 7 2013 .PlayOnLinux -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2077491 Nov 23 2013 .Soulseek.1385165090491 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2076644 Nov 23 2013 .Soulseek.1385166430938 -rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 9986 Dec 30 20:02 .Soulseek.1388433748295 drwxrwxr-x 2 1000 1000 60 Oct 13 2013 .SyncWall -rw------- 1 1000 1000 109 Jan 6 10:29 .Xauthority -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Jul 29 2013 .Xauthority.25Y20W -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Jul 13 2013 .Xauthority.7K14ZW -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Jul 7 2013 .Xauthority.7K7SZW -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Jul 13 2013 .Xauthority.9X1E0W -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Sep 1 2013 .Xauthority.A3D52W -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Sep 1 2013 .Xauthority.CEUV2W -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Jul 27 2013 .Xauthority.CP7Q0W -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Sep 8 2013 .Xauthority.E1ET2W -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Aug 26 2013 .Xauthority.E32K2W -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Sep 14 2013 .Xauthority.EKK92W -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Jul 12 2013 .Xauthority.F4QRZW -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Jul 25 2013 .Xauthority.ISVZ0W -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Jul 11 2013 .Xauthority.JU3UZW -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Aug 31 2013 .Xauthority.M30S2W -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Aug 1 2013 .Xauthority.M3H20W -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Sep 9 2013 .Xauthority.MKIN2W -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Aug 28 2013 .Xauthority.RWHB2W -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Jul 15 2013 .Xauthority.SN85ZW -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Sep 15 2013 .Xauthority.T22C3W -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Jul 14 2013 .Xauthority.T6CB0W -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Jul 31 2013 .Xauthority.VF7Q0W -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Sep 9 2013 .Xauthority.WGEX2W -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Aug 31 2013 .Xauthority.WZR52W -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Jul 25 2013 .Xauthority.YQIR0W
Most strange is, besides all the files starting with a dot, that I can’t browse the home/luis directories with Nautilus, which in fact were where all my backed up data was.
Answer
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Use
duplicity
to extract it:duplicity restore file:///path_to_folder_contains_backups/ path_where_to_extract_it/
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Enter GnuPG passphrase, Press Enter
By default, Duplicity restores last backup (comparing time) in the source folder even its not the backup for the same folder. If you have multiple backups for different folders or you want specific time of same folder, use --time
option example:
duplicity restore --time 20140106T111233Z file:///path_to_folder_contains_backups/ path_where_to_extract_it/
Unable to see the files you are looking for, try:
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Create function that list all files contained in all full/inc backups available in the source folder:
ldup () { for f in $(ls $1/duplicity-*.manifest.gpg); do echo "========================================================================"; echo $f; n=$(basename $f .manifest.gpg); prefix=$(echo $n | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "." } ;{ print $1 }'); if [[ "$prefix" == "duplicity-full" ]]; then t=$(echo $n | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "." } ;{ print $2 }'); else t=$(echo $n | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "." } ;{ print $4 }'); fi; echo -e "Creation time:\t" $t; echo "------------------------------------------------------------------------"; duplicity list-current-files --time $t file://$1/ | grep "$2"; done; }
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To list all files (note without tail
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):ldup /path_to_folder_contains_backups
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search for a pattern in file names:
ldup /path_to_folder_contains_backups pattern
Reference: man duplicity
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Source : Link , Question Author : Luis Martin , Answer Author : user.dz