Ubuntu – How to restore a Déjà Dup Backup file at command prompt with duplicity

I advise you to try to restore a important files.

The commande line : duplicity list-current-files --no-encryption file:///media/[rest of the root to your hard_disk] > /home/yourusername/list.txt don't liste all files in the backup since the beginning, source

and from author You can restore the full monty or selected folders/files from a specific time.

Try to creat list of files and directory you need to restore using liste.txt generated by last commande and the liste of files in the manifest genereted by Deja Dup in backup directory like duplicity-full.20120922T175100Z.manifest, (name it for example *final_list.txt*)

final_list.txt :

home/username/music
home/username/file.mp3
...

Creat restore directory

$mkdir /tmp/restore

Creat bash file Restore.sh

#!/bin/bash
FILE=$1
# Read file form list 
while read line 
do
    duplicity --no-encryption --file-to-restore  "$line"  file:///media/[rest of the root to your hard_disk] /tmp/restore/"$line" 
done <"$FILE"

Restore you list

$sh Restore.sh final_list.txt

Done! and good luck :)

The old method of restoring via right-click in Nautilus should work. The only time that option is not available in the context menu is when you are in a folder that is not included in the current backup settings. On your fresh install, make sure you have configured the backup exactly like on the old install.

A little technical background: Nautilus doesn't check what backups currently exist on the system. In fact, doing so would take a long time and cannot be done everytime you right-click on a folder. It only checks which folders are scheduled for backup and shows the option whenever you are in such a folder.

(Also, it seems like it doesn't check for exclusion filters – even in excluded folders, the restore option is available if the parent folder is included. Deja-dup won't restore anything though if you actually click it.)

If you still don't succeed on your machine for whatever reason, you can use this method instead:

deja-dup --restore [File1 File2 ...]

will restore individual files if you know their names.

deja-dup --restore-missing [Directory]

will restore the files that have been deleted from the given directory.

Note that both of these commands will bring up the Deja-Dup Restore GUI, which will also allow you to specify the backup source. You don't need to do the whole task on the command line.