How to manually extract a backup set made by duplicity

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I have a set of files on my webserver produced by duplicity software:

duplicity-full.20110315T085334Z.vol1.difftar.gz
duplicity-full.20110315T085334Z.vol2.difftar.gz
duplicity-full.20110315T085334Z.vol3.difftar.gz
etc… (50 files, total size about 1 Gb)

Backup has been made without encryption.

My current hoster haven't duplicity on his server and don't want to install it. How can I unpack these files using remote SSH access? Maybe there is some bash-script available to do that?

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How about download the required archive and then make like this: duplicity scp://uid@other.host//usr/backup restored_dir (example from official site)

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Extract duplicity difftar files manually

I think the command you are looking for is more along the lines of

duplicity restore --file-to-restore / file:///path/to/backups /path/to/dir

you may have to use

duplicity -t 3D restore --file-to-restore  / file:///path/to/backups /path/to/dir

or such because the command you ran is to backup, and not restore, so your latest backup might be the empty directory you pointed it to.

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Extract duplicity difftar files manually

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