How to restore from Onedrive

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#1

I’d like to be able to restore repository from Onedrive storage to a different computer. How to init that new repository - token, password etc?

Restore command details
#2

The details can be found in this #how-to : Restore to a different folder or computer.

You need to init the repository on a new computer, just like you normally would, and then do the restore.

Than means you need to have the same password, same repository-id and the one-drive token file (which you can copy from the existing repository as it’s just the means to login with One drive – instead of using your microsoft username and password).

#3

That’s the thing: on “main” machine where I’m making backups I have paid-for GUI version and I init repository for backup by clicking buttons. By now I’m familiar with the process. On the second machine (where I want to restore) I only have CLI and I didn’t find any info how to init the repository (from CLI) for restoring from Onedrive.

#5

Most of the support here is for CLI and we tried really hard to make this forum easily searchable for this reason.
Seems like we’re still up for some work :pensive:.

Anyway if you’re quite used to the GUI version, may i suggest you try to install the GUI on the second machine as well, even though it’s only the trial version? I think you can restore with that version.

#6

Well, I did install trial version on that machine and I made sure that I CAN restore using it. However from the log file I cannot see exact commands related to Onedrive storage. If a month from now I will have to restore some other repository, what I’m going to do? GUI trial will expire by then.

Do you agree it is only reasonable to have tested restore instruction/procedure for “future-self” like this:

  1. Download CLI if it’s not on the machine
  2. Create empty folder
  3. Login to OneDrive, download token file
  4. init repository using the following command(s) … (undocumented?)
  5. restore repository using the following command … (this one is documented)
#7

This is also documented: Init command details.
And the suported storages are in another #how-to : Supported storage backends.
And there’s also the tag #init which searches through all the issues related somehow to the init command (there be :unicorn: ) .

So the init command should be

  • with storage encryption:
duplicacy.exe init -e the_repository_id one://the/path/to/your/storage
  • without storage encryption:
duplicacy.exe init the_repository_id one://the/path/to/your/storage

And i almost forgot: one duplicacy user created some video tutorials for CLI as well: Duplicacy - Restore video tutorial

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#8

Oh, I see now, after watching video - the password and token location will be requested interactively at command line in response to INIT command, right? And that’s when one:/ url is going to be mapped to specific storage location using provided token?

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