Duplicacy Web Edition: How to restore *without* complete path structure

[neinei]

Hi there,
I am looking for a way in the Web UI to restore a file or a directory without its complete (deep) path structure which usually means a lot of empty upper level folders as some sort of unwanted overhead.
Does someone have a hint on this?
Thanks in advance.

[gchen]

Sorry there is no way to ‘flatten’ the path. The structure is always preserved by design.

[saspus]

This is one of the many, very common, requests/features/workflows that can be instantly enabled at no cost by having implemented this:

Mount duplicacy snapshot as a virtual filesystem

Continuing the discussion from Use standard UI controls whenever possible: What is duplicacy snapshot? It’s a virtual immutable filesystem, effectively, with its own internal API and a lot of code around it to access it and eventually produce just a handful few useful scenarios: copy files out of there (aka restore) copy files into a new leaf with deduplication (aka backup) delete the leaf (aka prune) So, why not take one more step further and implement an actual user mode VFS? This opens u…

Specifically, in this case, user could just have copied the file or sub folder right from virtual backup history to where they need it at using standard OS tools.

I think that features provides the maximum possible bang per buck by solving, or making irrelevant, the whole class of problems and future feature requests.

Most of competitors offer this (notable and relatable examples: Kopia and Borg). Duplicacy should too.

[neinei]

thanks for the suggestion. Yes, some sort of mount option would be helpful but it would be somehow cumbersome for uses cases like "restore just this one file " or “restore just this directory”. I played aound with this featfeature in Kopia WebUI.

[neinei]

Without touching the design principles, would there be a possibility to add an option in the restore dialog to strip down the upper level directories before copying it to the restore target. I found something like that in the advanced options of Duplicati dont-compress-restore-paths. I would be happy to use such an option in Duplicacy Web Edition.