Feature request: Restore to different destination

Restore
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Hi,
Is there currently a way to restore, using the restore button on the web interface, to a different destination than was originally backed up?
It would be very useful.

Thanks,
Glenn

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You do notice that it reuses the currently present files and does not transfer unchanged data/files…

If it is restored somewhere else, this optimization would be lost, except for if unchanged files are copied from the old location and partially changed files are copied and then modified. I’ll think a little bit more about that…

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Yes, I realise that is a great time saver and very useful under normal circumstances.
Even so, it would be a valuable option to be able to restore to a different location even though it would be a full restore process.

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I think this would be an incredibly useful feature as well. However, I think you can achieve what you seek by using the “Download folder as ZIP”, then extract the zip to whatever location you want.

One side request related to this - currently, the “size” column is blank for folders, leaving it a complete mystery how big the resulting zip file might be; it could be 100MB or it could be 100GB. I realize this could be difficult to implement (either a CPU hog to calculate recursive size or a ton of metadata), but it would be nice to see at least an estimated size of the tree or the resulting zip.

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The 4GB zip file size limit prevents that option.

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Hello:

Sorry to awaken an old topic - but I was looking through this as a way to implement a full restore for Mac clients (which don’t currently support image backups, so can’t be restored via the Restore CD).

I was hoping I would be able to:

  • Boot the to-be-restored machine from an external OS installation, containing the Urbackup Client;
  • Connect to the server and browse to my backup (note - the backup would possibly be from a different machine than the one I’m logged in from);
  • Restore the backup onto the internal drive of the machine;
  • (Possibly then requiring some jiggery-pokery to make the restored drive bootable).

Given that Time Machine seems to be getting increasingly broken at the moment, having a full-machine network-backup restore would be really valuable.

Thanks.

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If i understood well (and i never tested it)
In the cli you are supposed to be able to use these options, which would allow you to restore to a different client and to a different path:

urbackupclientctl restore-start
-v
–virtual-client Virtual client name
-t , --map-to (accepted multiple times)
Map to local output path of folders/files to a different local path
-m , --map-from (accepted multiple times)
Map from local output path of folders/files to a different local path

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Hi Orogor:

Ooh - interesting - thanks!

I’ll check that out and report back. :slight_smile: