Running out of space restoring a file with Duplicity

I'm trying to restore a VDI file for VirtualBox from a Duplicity backup. The VDI file is about 40 GB. I have 189 GB (including ~/.cache/duplicity that is fully synced) of free space when I start the restore in the drive I try to restore the file to. I'm running the following command: duplicity -t [date] --file-to-restore "[path_to_file_i_like_restore]" "sftp://[path_backup_location]" "[path_to_where_i_like_to_restore_the_file" --tempdir=~/.cache/tmp which returns: Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed. Error '[Errno 28] No space left on device' patching . Why is it running out of space? Is there anything I can do to make it not running out of space? I'm only running the restore command when I'm trying to restore the file to make sure that there is as much space as possible available. I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.4