# Restore MiaB (KO)

**URL:** <https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/restore-miab-ko/12000>\
**Category:** Help with Unusual Circumstances\
**Created:** [June 15, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/restore-miab-ko/12000 "2024-06-15T17:19:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anonymous78f](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Anonymous78f](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/Anonymous78f)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/restore-miab-ko/12000/1 "2024-06-15T17:19:54Z")

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Hello All,

I wanted to move my miab instance to a new server (like I did successfully for upgrading to Ubuntu 18 → Ubuntu 22).

I followed again maintenance guide dedicated to this subject, but it failed this time :

export PASSPHRASE=$(cat /home/user-data/backup/secret\_key.txt)  
sudo -E duplicity restore --force file:/home/user-data/backup/encrypted /home/user-data/

error message:  
CommandLineError: Source should be url, not directory. Got ‘file:/home/user-data/backup/encrypted’ instead.  
Enter ‘duplicity --help’ for help screen.

Could someone help me to restore with success, please ?  
Many thanks by advance.

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Best Regards  
Francois

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**Author:** ![dms](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/user_avatar/discourse.mailinabox.email/dms/32/2518_2.png) [@dms](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/dms)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2024, 6:10pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/restore-miab-ko/12000/2 "2024-06-15T18:10:16Z")

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> [@Anonymous78f](#):
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> export PASSPHRASE=$(cat /home/user-data/backup/secret\_key.txt)  
> sudo -E duplicity restore --force file:/home/user-data/backup/encrypted /home/user-data/
> 
> error message:  
> CommandLineError: Source should be url, not directory. Got ‘file:/home/user-data/backup/encrypted’ instead.  
> Enter ‘duplicity --help’ for help screen.

You have a mistake in your duplicity command. There must be three slashes (`///`) after “file:”

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**Author:** ![Anonymous78f](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Anonymous78f](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/Anonymous78f)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2024, 7:42pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/restore-miab-ko/12000/3 "2024-06-15T19:42:51Z")

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Hello @dms  
Many thanks

Issue fixed