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.