Easy restore

[jrabinow]

Once the snapshot is safely backed up in borg, how does one restore it? Can we make it easier with something like snapborg restore $SNAPPER_CONFIG_NAME $BACKUP_NAME?

[fat0troll]

Until it is automated, you can use borgfs to mount remote borg repository, and inside it you will find all snapshots as directories, and your files inside them.

[enzingerm]

I think adding an automated restore functionality would be quite complicated and dangerous to implement. But maybe adding a wrapper around commands like borg mount or borg extract could be provided. However, I'm not sure what the benefits of that would be over doing something like

• borg list <borg_repo>
• choose an archive/snapshot to restore from
• borg mount ... or borg extract ... this exact archive

[jrabinow]

I opened this issue purely for the wrapper side of things.

Benefits of doing this are simply consistent UX: one single tool to manage backups and restores