Restore using webdav

Another possibility is browsing your backup as webdav share. This option can be also used to mount the repository on either remote computers or locally if mount is not supported for your operation system. To start a webdav server, just run

$ rustic webdav

Now you can connect using a standard webdav client.

NOTE: Copying files using webdav may be not as efficient as using restore as restore is highly optimized and knows in the beginning what exactly will be restored.

NOTE Keep in mind that every file access via webdav may involve access to the repository. Especially read access to lots of data may be expensive depending on the backend. It is not advised to run compare tools or something like rsync if you mount the webdav in case you are use a remote backend. Use diff or restore if you want to compare or sync repository content with each other or with your local saved files.

NOTE: When using a hot/cold repositories, file access is only possible if the needed data is warmed-up in the cold repository part. By default rustic therefore forbids file-access by default, see --file-access below.

There are various options which can be used with the webdav command (most similar to mount)

• You can specify the exact snapshot/path to mount, e.g. rustic webdav latest:/home
• If no snapshot/path is given, all snapshots are displayed in a tree, you can use --path-template and --time-template to define the tree structure, e.g. first group by hostname and then by snapshot date/time.
• --address allows you to give the bind address.
• --symlinks also enables symlinks.
• --file-access allows to restict access to only listing dirs and.