[Borgbackup] Retrieving files from another machine repo

Bzzzz lazyvirus at gmx.com
Thu Oct 8 13:10:11 EDT 2020


On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 17:07:01 +0200
Bzzzz <lazyvirus at gmx.com> wrote:

I answer to myself (one is never so well served by himself and it
appears that I also quite agree with myself ;-P)

This mod'op is the right one as it took less than 10' to perform the
other machine restore.

JY

> I've a fried machine and have to retrieve some files from it's BB repo.
> 
> As I have a backup of ~/.config/borg/ and ~/.cache/borg/ from this
> fried machine, the easiest way I see to do that is to :
> * rename these 2 DIRs to d°_NORMAL
> * copy these 2 DIRs from my USB backup to their regular place
> * retrieve files from the repo
> * delete these 2 DIRs
> * move *_NORMAL to their regular names
> 
> but may be there's an easier way to achieve that?


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