Where in the docs should tips with duplicity reside?

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I recently upgraded the box to which my backups are directed. When setting up the new rsync, I realized I wasn’t exactly sure how to list the files that were in the backups, nor was I able to restore files from backups. This is bad. :slight_smile:

After some tinkering and looking over the forums here, I came up with this command to list the files:

PASSPHRASE=$(cat secretkey.txt) duplicity list-current-files file://. > list-of-backup-files

Once I identified a file to test restore, I ran this command to restore the files:

PASSPHRASE=$(cat secretkey.txt) duplicity restore --file-to-restore testfile file://. testdir

It succeeded in restoring the files, throwing some errors since I didn’t run as root, but that was fine.

Is there any interest in adding some basic how-to-restore documentation to MIAB? If so, should it be in the repo somewhere, or should it be on the backup page on the server, or what?

Jack.

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There are already some tips on the main MIAB website under

Restoring backup files
https://mailinabox.email/maintenance.html#moving-boxes

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Very nice! And right under the docs I was reading for my upgrade this morning. Oops. :slight_smile:

It would probably help to add the link you posted in your reply to the MIAB backups page.

Thank you for the quick response!

Jack.

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