Recursive restore certain files in Deja Dup

[duncan12]

Edit: disregard this post, read below post

So I tarred my home directory with the command in my post above:

tar cvpf /media/FreeAgent\ GoFlex\ Drive/backup/current.tar /home/duncan/

When it finished (2 hours later!) I opened the tar with Archive Manager. It seemed OK. I tried to rename a file in the tar and it came up with "Adding files to Archive" for a long time. Eventually I clicked cancel and it wouldn't cancel. In the end I had to killall file-roller (which is archive manager) and killall tar to be able to eject the drive.

I mounted the tar, out of curiosity, with Archive Mounter (appears on right-click menu).


The attached image compares the tar (right), and my real home directory (left). The tar has a few thousand more files in it. Why? I'm not sure whether this was caused by Archive Manager's behaviour or not.

[duncan12]

OK don't worry about the above question. I've put off reinstalling to next weekend, and I will simply copy my files onto the drive. No TARs to worry about.

But I'll only do that once I've got my missing files back, and since no answer for how to do this came from Ubuntu Forums I've put a question on launchpad here.

What I've learnt (apart from keeping backups - if I didn't all my photos would be gone):

Stick this at the end of ~/.bashrc

#safe rm mode
alias rm='rm -i'

It'll prompt you before each file rm deletes.

Marking this thread as solved since I'll pursue this issue on Launchpad instead.