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| author | Laurent Cozic <laurent22@users.noreply.github.com> | 2017-09-21 11:55:08 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-09-21 11:55:08 +0100 |
| commit | 1ed730e61451133b6fd52b1ef3ff672ffb166d6a (patch) | |
| tree | 3e7d179f496c325206315ef6ec9463fb14a2918f /README.md | |
| parent | 9a5afa66f4bcada071219ec168ffc86904a0c828 (diff) | |
Update README.md
Added "How to restore" section
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@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ To display the rsync options that are used for backup, run `./rsync_tmbackup.sh rsync_tmbackup --rsync-set-flags "--numeric-ids --links --hard-links \ --one-file-system --archive --no-perms --no-groups --itemize-changes" /src /dest + + +## How to restore + +The script creates a backup in a regular directory so you can simply copy the files back to the original directory. You could do that with something like `rsync -aP /path/to/last/backup/ /path/to/restore/to/`. Consider using the `--dry-run` option to check what exactly is going to be copied. Use `--delete` if you also want to delete files that exist in the destination but not in the backup (obviously extra care must be taken when using this option). ## Features |