Restore Snapshot Selecting restore

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I’m in the process of moving a machine. So using restic restores as a method of getting content from the source machine.

I can restore my docker data with a simple restore
restic restore 21ce0dd1 --include /source/Melkor/zdocker --target /mnt/restic

But now I have a folder that I want to restore (docker-data) but exclude certain folders.
I can’t do a:
restic restore 21ce0dd1 --include /source/Melkor/docker-data --exclude /source/Melkor/docker-data/baddata

Is my only option to use multiple --excludes on the restore?
restic restore 21ce0dd1 --exclude /source/Melkor/docker-data/baddata -exclude /source/Melkor/zdocker
to exclude everything from the full backup I don’t want.

2

restore currently only supports either --include or --exclude flags. But you can use the snapshot:subpath syntax supported by recent restic versions instead:

restic restore 21ce0dd1:/source/Melkor/docker-data --exclude /baddata --target /somewhere
3

revisting this, and saw a similar query where subpaths were recommened: Restore specific folder with spaces in the path

But similar to the link thread here is the command:

restic restore  --target /mnt/restic "latest:/media/serverfolders/tv/ --include "Formula 1 Drive to Survive/Season 6/Formula 1 - Drive to Survive (2
019) - S06E09 - Threes a Crowd.nfo"

Gets a: bash: syntax error near unexpected token ('`

Or without subpath:

restic restore latest --target /mnt/restic --iinclude "/media/serverfolders/tv/Formula 1 Drive to Surv
ive/Season 6/Formula 1 - Drive to Survive (2019) - S06E09 - Threes a Crowd.nfo"

Fatal: more than one snapshot ID specified: [latest 1 Drive to Survive/Season 6/Formula 1 - Drive to Survive (2019) - S06E09 - Threes a Crowd.nfo]

No matter if I surround the included file/path wtih " or escape with \ it always stops on that first space in Formula 1

4

@psyciknz there is a typo in both your examples.

first one is missing a " and second one has --iinclude instead of --include.

can you try this:

restic restore --target /mnt/restic "latest:/media/serverfolders/tv" --include "Formula 1 Drive to Survive/Season 6/Formula 1 - Drive to Survive (2
019) - S06E09 - Threes a Crowd.nfo"

or

restic restore latest --target /mnt/restic --include "/media/serverfolders/tv/Formula 1 Drive to Surv
ive/Season 6/Formula 1 - Drive to Survive (2019) - S06E09 - Threes a Crowd.nfo"

if the syntax error on the ( still shows up you can try to replace the “” with single quotes ’ '.

5

I thought to include a single file it was —Iinclude

I’ll give those a go.

6

I did look before I replied but not good enough.
For the record: --iinclude exists and it is the case-insensitive version of --include.

There are case insensitive variants of --exclude and --include called --iexclude and --iinclude. These options will behave the same way but ignore the casing of paths.

There are also --include-file, --exclude-file, --iinclude-file and --iexclude-file flags that read the include and exclude patterns from a file.