I’m going to do a full restore of my /home/boudiccas/ tomorrow because of too many problems that I’m getting after an upgrade to debian 13. So I’m going to do a full install from an iso file burnt onto a cd.so I’m just asking if this command would work?
`restic -r /mnt/backb/boudiccas restore latest --target /home/boudiccas/
My new /home will be just the bare bones so I’ll only be restoring to a minimal /home.
But, will it work, please?
Hi @Sharon and welcome back 
It will definitely restore something – it really just depends on how you made your backup of home. You could end up with something like /home/boudiccas/home/boudiccas/.bashrc etc.
Best bet is to restore your home folder to a temporary different location and then just move it there.
Does restic store any information in ‘/home/boudiccas’ please? Or is all the config that is available be at the source config, please?
restic does not store any config files.
This is the command that I used to restore my /home -
restic -r /mnt/backb/user restore latest --target /home/user/art/
And it restored almost 1.4TB in 4 hours and 23 minutes!
Very impressed that once I’d put in my password and just left it alone, it all went very smoothly! It was the first, and I hope, the last time that I needed to do a full restore, so if you’re looking for the best backup solution, I would very highly recommend restic!