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how to restore every file in a snapshot?

Asked by pescobar

Hi,

I have a machine with two hard drives, one for the system and secondary for backups.

Yesterday the main drive failed so I replaced it, reinstalled operating system and installed backintime to restore my last backup from the secondary disk. Now I have found that there is no way to select every file in my snapshot a do a "full snapshot restore". I have to manually select each of the files in the snapshot and then click restore.

¿there is no easier way to restore every file in the snapshot?

many thanks in advance for any help

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Dan (danleweb) said : 		#1

You are right, for now you have to restore each "first-level" item (file or folder) one by one.
The should be a "restore all" button and I hope to make it for the next version.

Regards,
Dan

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pescobar (pescobar) said : 		#2

Many thanks for your help Dan

there is no possibility to do the full restore even on command line?

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Tom Metro (tmetro+ubuntu) said : 		#3

Isn't the obvious workaround to navigate to the subdirectory holding the desired snapshot on your backup drive and then use your choice of GUI or command-line tool (cp, tar, rsync) to copy the files?

One of the big benefits to BiT is that the backups are just plain files in a directory. No compression, encryption, or special format.

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