Re: How does one restore a set of files specified by wildcard

On 1/29/2025 14:27:55, edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> hey Jakob,
>
> On 29.01.2025 10:38, Jakob Bohm via Duplicity-talk wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> The documentation for Duplicity 1.x.y is quite vague on this common 
>> operation.
>>
>> How does one tell duplicity to restore a set of files specified by a 
>> wildcard such as
>> "dir1/dir2/dir3/*ken*.txt"?
>>
>> I suspect the answer involves some use of the include/exclude 
>> options, but hopefully
>> there is no need to restore the entire backup or run duplicity for 
>> each file, as both would
>> involve excessive (paid) traffic from the online storage service .
>
> fine grained selection for the restore process is not implemented 
> unfortunately. feel free to contribute it :)
>
> all duplicity offers just now is (from 
> https://duplicity.us/stable/duplicity.1.html#synopsis)
>
>   duplicity [restore] [options] [--path-to-restore <relpath>] [--time 
> time] source_url target_directory
>
> where <relpath> can point to a file or folder in the backup and 
> 'target_directory' actually will be the restored file or folder. we 
> should probably fix the man page there.
>
> tl;dr you will need to restore the full folder "dir1/dir2/dir3/" in 
> your case if you want multiple files in it restored.
>
> sunny regards ..ede/duply.net
>
Just to clarify, dir1/dir2/dir3/ is already a relative path within the 
backup of
much more data, target_directory for a full restore would be a mount 
point of a
blank disk .

I was hoping the documented --include option could be used with some 
specific
combination of absolute and relative path syntax .

Something like:

# duplicity restore --include 'dir1/dir2/dir3/*ken*.txt' \
 > backend://url /original/mount/point

Or maybe:

# duplicity restore \
 > --include '/original/mount/point/dir1/dir2/dir3/*ken*.txt' \
 > backend://url /original/mount/point

Enjoy

Jakob
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