How to restore folders to their original destination using duplicity?

After performing a backup of a couple of directories like so: # duplicity\ --exclude /home/user/Documents/test1/file\ --include /home/user/Documents/test1\ --include /tmp/test2\ --exclude '**'\ / file:///home/user/Backup I wanted to test how the restoration works by deleting the backed up directories: # rm -rf /home/user/Documents/test1 /tmp/test2 And then, restoring the backup, # duplicity file:///home/user/Backup / But I got the error, Restore destination directory / already exists. Will not overwrite. So it appears that I can't restore to the original destination without emptying the root folder even though the destination of these included folders have already been cleared. Is there a better way than to restore it to another location and then moving each folder one by one? # duplicity --file-to-restore home/user/Documents/test1 file:///home/user/Backup /home/user/Restore1 # mv /home/user/Restore1/home/user/Documents/test1 /home/user/Documents/test1 # duplicity --file-to-restore tmp/test2 file:///home/user/Backup /home/user/Restore2 # mv /home/user/Restore2/tmp/test2 /tmp/test2