Restore - Restoring from backup

Restoring from a snapshot is as easy as it sounds, just use the following command to restore the contents of the latest snapshot to /tmp/restore-work:

$ rustic restore 79766175 /tmp/restore-work
enter password for repository:
restoring <Snapshot of [/home/user/work] at 2015-05-08 21:40:19.884408621 +0200 CEST> to /tmp/restore-work

Use the word latest to restore the last backup. You can also combine latest with the --filter-host and --filter-path filters to choose the last backup for a specific host, path or both.

$ rustic restore latest /tmp/restore-art --filter-path "/home/art" --filter-host luigi
enter password for repository:
restoring <Snapshot of [/home/art] at 2015-05-08 21:45:17.884408621 +0200 CEST> to /tmp/restore-art

Use --glob (pattern to exclude/include (can be specified multiple times)) to restrict the restore to a subset of files in the snapshot. For example, to restore a single file:

$ rustic restore 79766175 /tmp/restore-work --glob /work/foo
enter password for repository:
restoring <Snapshot of [/home/user/work] at 2015-05-08 21:40:19.884408621 +0200 CEST> to /tmp/restore-work

This will restore the file foo to /tmp/restore-work/work/foo.

You can use the command rustic ls latest

the path to the file within the snapshot. This path you can then pass to --glob in verbatim to only restore the single file or directory.

There is case insensitive variants of --glob called --iglob. This option will behave the same way but ignore the casing of paths.

Important: The restore command will restore the permissions of the files and directories to the state they were in when the snapshot was taken. GUIDs and UIDs will be restored as well, but this requires elevated privileges to work correctly.