[Box Backup] restore to particular date and time?

Chris Wilson chris at qwirx.com
Mon Apr 26 21:08:13 BST 2010


Hi Arne,

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Arne Schirmacher wrote:

> Is it possible to restore a directory to a particular date in the past, 
> so that the versions of all files are not newer than that date? I can't 
> find anything related in the documentation.
>
> I could of course restore the corresponding deleted version of a file 
> but if there are lots of files this task is not manageable.

I'm afraid there's no easy reliable way at the moment. See this feature 
request:

http://www.boxbackup.org/trac/wiki/FeatureRequests#VersionedRepository

There is a "kind of" restore to point in time feature in Boxi, to the best 
approximation that I could do with the current store format, but Boxi is 
not complete and there's absolutely no guarantee that it will restore your 
data or not bite your dog.

Cheers, Chris.
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