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I have two laptops. I back both them up to the SAME external hard drive. Backups are labelled laptopA and laptopB. A runs 16.04 and B runs 17.10

Laptop A is no longer working.

I want to 'restore' some files from the laptop A backup to laptop B. However when I specify 'laptopA', as the folder to restore from, the backup starts from the folder laptopB.

For clarity, I am working on laptopB.

Any thoughts?

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  • I suspect help.ubuntu.com/community/DuplicityBackupHowto provides the answer in the "restore" section. (using the script provided's example, yours just restoring whatever to wherever you want; the example restores a /etc/ file to the /home/user/ directory)
    – guiverc
    Commented Jun 29, 2018 at 2:03

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The documentation I think provides your answer

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DuplicityBackupHowto

in it's "Restore" section. They provide a sample script that restores a file from the /etc/ folder into the /home/user/directory

"At some point, it may be necessary to restore a file. That task can be accomplished quickly and easily by making minor modifications to the following script:

export PASSPHRASE=SomeLongGeneratedHardToCrackKey
export FTP_PASSWORD=WhateverPasswordYouSetUp
duplicity --file-to-restore apt/sources.list ftp://[email protected]/etc /home/user/sources.list
unset PASSPHRASE
unset FTP_PASSWORD

You need to change what you want to restore (apt/sources/list in this example script), and where you want to put it (/home/user/sources.list becomes your "folder B")

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