![]() ![]() While I can do a workaround of restoring to a separate directory, it's going to be a PITA to then move everything into place by hand. ![]() How can I force duplicacy to do a restore of all files that don't already exist on the restore destination? Then the restore process quits at that point. Please specify the -overwrite option to continue. Restoring / to revision 2ĭownloaded chunk 1 size 8393236, 8.00MB/s 08:33:45 0.0%įile installer.failurerequests already exists. It chokes at the first file that it finds already exists, e.g. This is what I thought duplicacy was supposed to do if -overwrite was not specified. escaping both the leading '-' and the two '*' so they don't get interpreted by the shell first ) to specify the exclusions, like this: sudo duplicacy restore -stats -r2 - \-*Safari\* I finally figured it out using shell escapes (i.e. I tried many different ways of doing exclusion. ![]() Mkdir /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/PlugIns: operation not permitted So I am trying to exclude them.įor example, upon first try I got the error: Restoring / to revision 2 However, upon restore, it is trying to restore some of the system applications, and due to System Integrity Protection, that is not allowed. I finally figured it out, so I have turned this question into an example for future reference:Į.g. #DUPLICACY UPGRADING HOW TO#I could not figure out how to use the exclusion patterns on the command line for restore. So the question is: Why is duplicacy apparently trying to restore the dev/ files, even though they weren't backed up?Ģ. When I search the files listing from "duplicacy list -files" there is no "auditsessions" or "afsc_type5" listed. However, I excluded dev/* from the backup. Skipped non-regular file dev/auditsessions For example: storage set to non-regular file dev/afsc_type5 Duplicacy seems to be trying to restore things that shouldn't have been backed up, and aren't listed when I do a 'duplicacy list -files'. I wiped the drive and restored the OS first (El Capitan, it's an old MacBook pro).ġ. On a test machine, I backed up my / drive (Mac), excluding the common system paths. I want to verify that duplicacy can restore things if I lose a boot drive due to a crash or whatever. All issues Restore: weird inclusions and how to exclude ![]()
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