CLI - browse for and restore single or selected file/s?

[Derek_v2]

Hiya,

I’m experimenting with Duplicacy and Borg. So far i’ve only actually tried Duplicacy and read about Borg.

I’ve scanned and searched this forum and perhaps i’ve missed it but i haven’t found a way to browse the backup set/repository (without the webGUI) so i can identify specific file/s and restore just that file/those files.

Borg uses FUSE to enable you to mount the repository and from what i gather allow the use of standard GUI file managers to copy/paste or of course through CLI commands.

Is there a way to restore individual files in Duplicacy CLI? One of my devices is a headless server, so i’m not looking at the webGUI version for that (i am for some client PCs).

Thanks

While i’m here, i think i found a post saying that you can restore a whole snapshot to a different path than its original source but i’ve lost it. Is that correct?

[towerbr]

i haven’t found a way to browse the backup set/repository

This is not yet implemented, and has been discussed a few times, like in this topic.

Is there a way to restore individual files in Duplicacy CLI?

Sure! You’ll have to use filtering with include/exclude patterns:

Restore command details

Unlike the backup procedure that reading the include/exclude patterns from a file, the restore procedure reads them from the command line. If the patterns can cause confusion to the command line argument parser, – should be prepended to the patterns. Please refer to the Include/Exclude Patterns section for how to specify patterns.

i think i found a post saying that you can restore a whole snapshot to a different path than its original source but i’ve lost it. Is that correct?

You probably saw this topic in the Guide:

Restore to a different folder or computer

We’ve briefly explained how to restore a backup to a different folder or computer in Duplicacy quick-start and Restore command details, but this topic is so important that it deserves its own page. Suppose you’ve set up a repository with the repository id backup1 and run the first backup: cd path/to/repository1 duplicacy init backup1 sftp://user@192.168.1.100/path/to/storage duplicacy backup -stats If you edit some files in the repository and later want to undo the edits, you can simply run t…

[Derek_v2]

Thanks, and thanks for the links. Can’t believe i couldn’t find “restore to a different folder or computer”