GUI for Duplicity Backup/Restore

Asked by ozdroggy

Five days ago I suffered a TOTAL disaster and my primary HDD died. Luckily I did a Full Backup on 29 December and incrementals automatically since then so have all the duplicity files needed to restore.

I had to reinstall Linux Mint 17 from scratch and have installed Duplicity OK using Software Manager.

I KNOW that I used a GUI back in December to set up my incremental backups and start the initial backup but I am now going mad as I seem unable to find it now even though I have ' installed' duply which I assume should be it - but I can't find any 'duply' on the computer.

I could try to run things in Terminal but am a little uncertain of the modifications to "restore <target_url> <source_dir>"

The source is a directory OK but not sure what I should have as the 'target'. Here is the first two volumes shown in the 'duplicity-full.20141228T230157Z.manifest' file so is it 'home' or 'michael' or something else. I would prefer to use the GUI if I can find it :-(

Hostname michael-Dell-DM051
Localdir /
Volume 1:
    StartingPath .
    EndingPath "home/michael/.google/picasa/3.0/drive_c/Documents\x20and\x20Settings/michael/Local\x20Settings/Application\x20Data/Google/Picasa2/db3/bigthumbs_0.db" 338
    Hash SHA1 6bad75b01d32603ba55a07d4362a09aaccf64185
Volume 2:
    StartingPath "home/michael/.google/picasa/3.0/drive_c/Documents\x20and\x20Settings/michael/Local\x20Settings/Application\x20Data/Google/Picasa2/db3/bigthumbs_0.db" 339
    EndingPath "home/michael/.google/picasa/3.0/drive_c/Documents\x20and\x20Settings/michael/Local\x20Settings/Application\x20Data/Google/Picasa2/db3/bigthumbs_0.db" 1150
    Hash SHA1 df69a1bbd5f0f375254a61e723d58ec1e118a4a9

What am I missing or what have I done wrong??? ANY assistance greatfully received. Mike.

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Best Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse) said :
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Was the GUI that you used deja dup?
https://launchpad.net/deja-dup

duply is a command line program, rather than a GUI - it is very helpful for setting up profiles of settings, but is not a GUI.

I suspect that, if you were doing things at the command line, you would want to restore somewhere empty and then manually copy over what you want.

I'm not in front of a machine with duplicity at the moment, but think you could just do something like:
duplicity file:///path/to/source/files /home/bob/restored_files

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ozdroggy (mikecalder) said :
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Thanks Aaron - YES!

I installed deja-dup and that was the answer. What a weight off my mind.

LINUX does it again - great support from all.

Mike.

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ozdroggy (mikecalder) said :
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Thanks Aaron Whitehouse, that solved my question.