directory commands in linux

You're missing a couple slashes. It should be:

duplicity --gio --no-encryption file:///home/loren /tmp/restore

I executed the command with your corrections. The write seems to have failed. /tmp/restore contains zero files.

loren@loren-laptop:/$ duplicity --gio --no-encryption file:///home/loren /tmp/restore
Synchronizing remote metadata to local cache...
Copying duplicity-full.20110216T153127Z.manifest to local cache.
Write of '/tmp/duplicity-6rHrkK-tempdir/mktemp-jbeTZk-2' failed (attempt 1): Error: Error stating file '/home/loren/duplicity-full.20110216T153127Z.manifest': No such file or directory
Write of '/tmp/duplicity-6rHrkK-tempdir/mktemp-jbeTZk-2' failed (attempt 2): Error: Error stating file '/home/loren/duplicity-full.20110216T153127Z.manifest': No such file or directory
Write of '/tmp/duplicity-6rHrkK-tempdir/mktemp-jbeTZk-2' failed (attempt 3): Error: Error stating file '/home/loren/duplicity-full.20110216T153127Z.manifest': No such file or directory
Write of '/tmp/duplicity-6rHrkK-tempdir/mktemp-jbeTZk-2' failed (attempt 4): Error: Error stating file '/home/loren/duplicity-full.20110216T153127Z.manifest': No such file or directory
Write of '/tmp/duplicity-6rHrkK-tempdir/mktemp-jbeTZk-2' failed (attempt 5): Error: Error stating file '/home/loren/duplicity-full.20110216T153127Z.manifest': No such file or directory
Error stating file '/home/loren/duplicity-full.20110216T153127Z.manifest': No such file or directory

I executed a full backup command after setting the file locations to
match your instructions and the backup executed successfully. I note
that the files in /tmp/restore now have the extension .gz whereas the
files I originally tried to restore used the .gpg extension. Why are
they different?

On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 19:01 +0000, Loren41 wrote:
> Your question #163628 on Déjà Dup changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+question/163628
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> You are still having a problem:
> I executed the command with your corrections. The write seems to have
> failed. /tmp/restore contains zero files.
> Copying duplicity-full.20110216T153127Z.manifest to local cache.
> Write of '/tmp/duplicity-6rHrkK-tempdir/mktemp-jbeTZk-2' failed (attempt 1): Error: Error stating file '/home/loren/duplicity-full.20110216T153127Z.manifest': No such file or directory
> Write of '/tmp/duplicity-6rHrkK-tempdir/mktemp-jbeTZk-2' failed (attempt 2): Error: Error stating file '/home/loren/duplicity-full.20110216T153127Z.manifest': No such file or directory
> Write of '/tmp/duplicity-6rHrkK-tempdir/mktemp-jbeTZk-2' failed (attempt 3): Error: Error stating file '/home/loren/duplicity-full.20110216T153127Z.manifest': No such file or directory
> Write of '/tmp/duplicity-6rHrkK-tempdir/mktemp-jbeTZk-2' failed (attempt 4): Error: Error stating file '/home/loren/duplicity-full.20110216T153127Z.manifest': No such file or directory
> Write of '/tmp/duplicity-6rHrkK-tempdir/mktemp-jbeTZk-2' failed (attempt 5): Error: Error stating file '/home/loren/duplicity-full.20110216T153127Z.manifest': No such file or directory
> Error stating file '/home/loren/duplicity-full.20110216T153127Z.manifest': No such file or directory
>

One set is encrypted (gpg ending), the other is not (gz ending). Could that have been your problem originally? Because you were using the --no-encryption argument. So that might explain why you got errors and no restored files.