Sorry in advance if this question happens to be of a naïve sort.
I know that recovering files in Déjà-Dup is pretty straightforward: simply go the the directory where the file used to be and (in Nautilus) do "File => Restore Missing Files".
But what if I do not know the directory where the file used to reside? Can I search for the filename in Déjà-dup?
Many thanks for your help.
One simple solution is to use duplicity (on which Déjà-dup sits) and produce a list of files in the backup:
duplicity list-current-files --no-encryption --time <timestring> target > list.txt
where "timestring" is given, according to man duplicity, as:
The acceptible time strings are intervals (like "3D64s"), w3-datetime strings, like "2002-04-26T04:22:01-07:00" (strings like "2002-04-26T04:22:01" are also acceptable - duplicity will use the current time zone), or ordinary dates like 2/4/1997 or 2001-04-23 (various combinations are acceptable, but the month always precedes the day).
and "target" is the path to the directory where your backup is.
In my case the full command was:
duplicity list-current-files --no-encryption --time 3D file://mybackup > list.txt
After this, you can open "list.txt" in any text editor and search for the filename.
If you want something more elaborated, have a look on https://askubuntu.com/a/486458/213084
