How can I list all the files in a snapshot, or collection of snapshots? I'd like to find some specific files

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Hi all,

I have a series of backups that have been going for some years now. In particular my photos.

I want to look at the files to find them. What I did was list all my snapshots similar to this:

restic -r /srv/restic-repo snapshots

Then I found my snapshot and did something like this:

restic -r /srv/restic-repo snapshots --path="/srv/photos"

That’s great, I see hundreds of snapshots from my regular automated backups that have been running.

How can I then look inside those snapshots to see which one has the file/s I want to recover? That’s where I’m stuck.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thank you

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Did you play around with

restic ls SNAPSHOTID

already?

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It’s undefined what you mean by “look inside”, but similar to @betatester77’s suggestions here are a few options:

  • Use restic ls to list the files contained in a snapshot`.
  • Use restic restore to restore some or all files contained in a snapshot.
  • Use restic mount (on supported platforms) to get a browsable file structure with the files in your snapshots.
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Thank you so much. I found that the best bet for me was to use the mount command.
Then I basically entered the mount, did a tree > /home/resticFileStructure.txt and then I had that file to peruse and find what I needed. I very much appreciate your help.

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