On windows and I have backups working great, and have been able to recover individual files.
One of my 6TB drives, that is around 4TB used, may be corrupt and I want to restore that entire drive from the file backup to a different external drive.
I’ve not seen an option/dialog/popup allowing me to select -where- to restore a backup to, its always going back to the drive and path it was on before. Am I blind, or is there not an option to restore a file backup to a different location on windows? I’d try the ZIP file option, but don’t think a 4TB zip is the way to go…
Are you doing Image Backups ? You may be better off to restore the image to a new drive. using the UI to restore files, puts them back into there original location. one option may be, if you have added the second drive to the PC already, use disk manager to change the Driver letter, and swap the drive letter of the new drive, to the same drive letter that was the original drive. so for example Old 4TB Drive is E:\ New Drive you added is F:\ goto disk manager, right click on the Partition, and select Chage Drive letters and path and swap the Drive letter, then use the UI to restore back to the original location.
I’d have to check if image restoration is an option. Physical drive size is very different (or I’d have to buy a new drive to match)…. Was really thinking I’d be able to bring over all the files to any location I’d want. Need to check if there is a command line way to do this.
It is possible from the command line, though I have to admit I never tested this on Windows.
It’s the restore-start--map-from and --map-to parameters.
ZIP download should be fine, though? Depending on what kind of storage you use, if you care about metadata like permissions and the amount of symlink usage you can perhaps also just copy from the backup storage.
Not sure creating a zip of ~4TB of photos and videos would be the best plan, the server would be cranking on build that for “a long time” and I thought I saw somewhere there was a limit on the size the zip would be? Or will urbackup create multiple zip files automatically?
Sure looks like the command line should work, but I keep getting “Error starting restore” with no indication of the error, and nothing logged at the server.
