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 -r /srv/rustic-repo 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 -r /srv/rustic-repo 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 -r /srv/rustic-repo 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.