My Linux machine recently failed and I am trying to restore my files onto a Windows 11 machine. The files were created using Duplicity (the external HD containing the files has hundreds of .difftar.gz and .sigtar.gz files as well as a '.manifest'). Having installed CGWin and the duplicity package, I traverse to my external HD in cgwin...

$ pwd    
/cygdrive/e

... and attempt to restore the latest snapshot of my lost directories/files to a temp folder on my Windows 11 machine by running:

 duplicity restore file:/// /cygdrive/c/Users/john/OneDrive/Documents/temp

At this juncture, the restoration fails due to a "IsADirectoryError" error.

Warning, found the following remote orphaned signature file:
duplicity-new-signatures.20211221T070230Z.to.20211224T103806Z.sigtar.gz
Warning, found signatures but no corresponding backup files
Warning, found incomplete backup sets, probably left from aborted session
Synchronizing remote metadata to local cache...
Copying duplicity-full-signatures.20211118T103831Z.sigtar to local cache.
Attempt of get Nr. 1 failed. IsADirectoryError: Is a directory
Attempt of get Nr. 2 failed. IsADirectoryError: Is a directory
Attempt of get Nr. 3 failed. IsADirectoryError: Is a directory
Attempt of get Nr. 4 failed. IsADirectoryError: Is a directory
Giving up after 5 attempts. IsADirectoryError: Is a directory

Is there an error in my duplicity command? Do I have corrupted backups? Any assistance in trouble-shooting this would be greatly appreciated!

CodePudding user response：

let's assume that duplicity works (it's not officially supported on windows in any way). never tried it.

say your backup data exists in the root of your external harddrive mounted as E:. you want to restore the complete last backup into a folder C:\Users\john\OneDrive\Documents\temp\ .

two points

1. point it to your backup location properly. absolutely that would be /cygdrive/e/ or as url file:///cygdrive/e/
2. point to your target folder as folder ending with a slash / to signal that the backup is to be restored in there.

taking these points into account a command like

duplicity file:///cygdrive/e/ /cygdrive/c/Users/john/OneDrive/Documents/temp/

should work as expected.

NOTE: you don't need the action command restore as the order of arguments (url before local file system location) tells duplicity already that you want to restore.