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 ==== If you need to restore a snapshot ====
-Once this is done, you can do another backup of your /home, which contains all your regular files. For this you can use the software backintime. You can install it with:
+More infos can be found [[https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/050_restore.html|here]].
-<code>
-sudo apt install backintime-qt
-</code>
+First, you can see the existing snapshots in your backup folder by entering:
-Before launching it, we need to decrypt the encrypted disk, and mount the logical volume we intend to use:
+<code> restic -r /path/to/your/backup/folder snapshots </code>
-<code>
-sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb2 cryptsetup
-sudo vgchange -ay
-sudo mount /dev/mapper/vgbackup-home /mnt
-</code>
-now everything written on /mnt on your computer will be written on your disk.
+which will give the following output:
-You can then launch backintime with:
+<pre>enter password for repository:
-<code>
+repository 7d765fa4 opened (repository version 2) successfully, password is correct
-sudo backintime-qt
+ID        Time                 Host             Tags        Paths
-</code>
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+e4398a4  2026-06-19 10:15:59  your-computer-name              /path/to/the/folder/you/backuped
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+snapshots
+</pre>
-you can then configure it to save things in /mnt:
+Note that you need to know your password to do this, as all backups made by restic are encrypted. Pick up the ID of the snapshot you want to restore, for example in our case ''9e4398a4''
-{{ ::backintime_1.png?600 |}}
+To see all files in this snapshot, enter:
+<code> restic -r /path/to/your/backup/folder ls snapshot_id </code>
-{{ ::backintime_2.png?600 |}}
+which will give the following output:
+<pre>restic -r testdir ls 9e4398a4
+enter password for repository:
+repository 7d767fa4 opened (repository version 2) successfully, password is correct
+snapshot 9e4398a4 of [/path/to/the/folder/you/backuped] filtered by [] at 2026-06-19 10:15:59.284838644 +0200 CEST):
+/testdir2
+/testdir2/hi</pre>
+if you would like to restore the whole snapshot to a specific directory, enter:
-{{ ::backintime_3.png?600 |}}
+<code>restic -r /srv/restic-repo restore 9e4398a4 --target /path-to-the/place/you/want/to/restore/to </code>
+<pre>enter password for repository:
+restoring snapshot of [/home/user/work] at 2015-05-08 21:40:19.884408621 +0200 CEST to /tmp/restore</pre>
-And then click on "Take snapshot" and wait for it to finish:
+It is possible to restore only a folder or file by changing ''snapshot_id'' to ''snapshot_id:/path/to/folder/or/file'' in the above expression
-{{ ::backintime_4.png?600 |}}
-you can then unmount and remove your backup disk:
-<code>
-sudo umount /mnt
-sudo vgchange -an vgbackup
-sudo cryptsetup luksClose cryptodisk
-</code>