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title: How to extract a backup
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## Extract
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When the worst happens—or you want to test your backups—the first step is
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to figure out which archive to extract. A good way to do that is to use the
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`list` action:
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```bash
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borgmatic list
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```
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(No borgmatic `list` action? Try the old-style `--list`, or upgrade
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borgmatic!)
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That should yield output looking something like:
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```text
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host-2019-01-01T04:05:06.070809 Tue, 2019-01-01 04:05:06 [...]
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host-2019-01-02T04:06:07.080910 Wed, 2019-01-02 04:06:07 [...]
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```
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Assuming that you want to extract the archive with the most up-to-date files
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and therefore the latest timestamp, run a command like:
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```bash
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borgmatic extract --archive host-2019-01-02T04:06:07.080910
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```
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(No borgmatic `extract` action? Try the old-style `--extract`, or upgrade
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borgmatic!)
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The `--archive` value is the name of the archive to extract. This extracts the
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entire contents of the archive to the current directory, so make sure you're
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in the right place before running the command.
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## Repository selection
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If you have a single repository in your borgmatic configuration file(s), no
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problem: the `extract` action figures out which repository to use.
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But if you have multiple repositories configured, then you'll need to specify
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the repository path containing the archive to extract. Here's an example:
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```bash
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borgmatic extract --repository repo.borg --archive host-2019-...
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```
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## Extract particular files
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Sometimes, you want to extract a single deleted file, rather than extracting
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everything from an archive. To do that, tack on one or more `--restore-path`
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values. For instance:
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```bash
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borgmatic extract --archive host-2019-... --restore-path path/1 path/2
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```
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Note that the specified restore paths should not have a leading slash. Like a
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whole-archive extract, this also extracts into the current directory. So for
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example, if you happen to be in the directory `/var` and you run the `extract`
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command above, borgmatic will extract `/var/path/1` and `/var/path/2`.
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## Database restoration
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The `borgmatic extract` command only extracts files. To restore a database,
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please see the [documentation on database backups and
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restores](https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/backup-your-databases/).
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borgmatic does not perform database restoration as part of `borgmatic extract`
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so that you can extract files from your archive without impacting your live
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databases.
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## Related documentation
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* [Set up backups with borgmatic](https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/set-up-backups/)
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* [Inspect your backups](https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/inspect-your-backups/)
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* [Monitor your backups](https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/monitor-your-backups/)
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* [Backup your databases](https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/backup-your-databases/)
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