Documentation

These are also included in the tar or rpm packages:

CHANGELOG
duplicity man page (converted from groff form by rman)
rdiffdir man page (converted from groff form by rman)

Examples:

Below are a few examples which illustrate how to execute duplicity. The manual page, included in the duplicity distribution, also has examples, and explains all the options.

Here is a basic backup command, which causes duplicity to use scp/ssh to back up /home/me on the local system to /usr/backup on remote host other.host.

duplicity /home/me scp://uname@other.host//usr/backup
If the above command is run repeatedly, the first session will be a full backup, and subsequent ones will be incremental. The --full option can be used to force a full backup. The next command also excludes the /tmp directory.
duplicity --full --exclude /tmp /home/me scp://uname@other.host//usr/backup
Backup, writing archives via ftp with ftp password mypassword:

FTP_PASSWORD=mypassword duplicity /home/me ftp://uname@other.host/ftp_dir
Basic restore command---restore the /home/me directory backed up with scp above to directory restored_dir:

duplicity scp://uid@other.host//usr/backup restored_dir