[Duplicity-talk] restore from incremental backup before last full backup

[Philip Jocks]

Hi,

I'm doing weekly full backups every Sunday and incrementals on any  
other day like this:

> /usr/local/bin/duplicity [full] --encrypt-key 'A' --encrypt-key 'B'  
> --sign-key 'B' \
> --include-globbing-filelist /usr/local/etc/duplicity_filelist -- 
> exclude '**' / \
> scp://address@hidden/path

After a successful backup I use

> /usr/local/bin/duplicity remove-older-than 7D --force scp:// 
> address@hidden/path

to get rid of old backup files.

I know, there's "remove-all-but-n-full", but my setup is from before  
that option and I didn't get around changing it, because "remove-older- 
than 7D" does the trick as well, because no full backup is deleted if  
incrementals depend on it. So I thought...
Today, I wanted to restore a file from last Wednesdays backup, that  
would be an incremental depending on the last but one full backup:

> duplicity restore -t 2009-07-22 --file-to-restore /path/to/local/ 
> file scp://address@hidden/path /path/to/local/file_2009-07-22

and get:

> /path/to/local/file not found in archive, no files restored.

It seems, doing a second full backup renders the full backup before  
that useless, am I right?
If I am, the files, should still be there, is there a way to recover  
from the difftar files manually?

Cheers,

Philip