Restore a USB drive

[maccra]

Hello,
I setup a repository on a USB drive, so that I can backup the files on the USB drive to a local folder location (for testing purposes).
I could perform the backup without problems.

However, how can I restore files from the backup location when the USB is disconnected. The software says that the “ERROR: repository has not been not initialised”. This is an issue because if the USB drive is not available/not useable (i.e. lost, stolen, damages, corrupt etc.), I will not be able to restore the files.

Also I think the same issue would occur for any removable repository (eg. network drive, or other virtual drive)

I am hoping this is just a user error here, so would appreciate some guidance.

Thanks

[maccra]

Ok… no need to respond to this.

This is essentially procedure describe here at “How to restore from scratch?”

How to restore from scratch?

Suppose the backup source (repository?), is totally lost e.g. stolen laptop, how would one go about restoring to a new machine? What information, if any, beyond what is recorded on the backup medium, needs to be saved/known to do the restore? (Note: I’m not actually facing this situation (yet))

I tried this and it worked.

Thanks

[gchen]

Glad that you figured it out. I should have made a FAQ page.