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| How to restore a backup |
Extract
When the worst happens—or you want to test your backups—the first step is
to figure out which archive to restore. A good way to do that is to use the
list action:
borgmatic list
(No borgmatic list action? Try the old-style --list, or upgrade
borgmatic!)
That should yield output looking something like:
host-2019-01-01T04:05:06.070809 Tue, 2019-01-01 04:05:06 [...]
host-2019-01-02T04:06:07.080910 Wed, 2019-01-02 04:06:07 [...]
Assuming that you want to restore the archive with the most up-to-date files and therefore the latest timestamp, run a command like:
borgmatic extract --archive host-2019-01-02T04:06:07.080910
(No borgmatic extract action? Try the old-style --extract, or upgrade
borgmatic!)
The --archive value is the name of the archive to restore. This extracts the
entire contents of the archive to the current directory, so make sure you're
in the right place before running the command.
Repository selection
If you have a single repository in your borgmatic configuration file(s), no
problem: the extract action figures out which repository to use.
But if you have multiple repositories configured, then you'll need to specify the repository path containing the archive to extract. Here's an example:
borgmatic extract --repository repo.borg --archive host-2019-...
Restore particular files
Sometimes, you want to restore a single deleted file, rather than restoring
everything from an archive. To do that, tack on one or more --restore-path
values. For instance:
borgmatic extract --archive host-2019-... --restore-path /path/1 /path/2
Like a whole-archive restore, this also restores into the current directory.