Re: restore only modifies

On 30/04/2021 18:54, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>> On 24/04/2021 21:00, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>>> is it possible to restore files from archive, not overwriting those that
>>> haven't changed?
> 
> On 25.04.21 22:11, Denis Corbin wrote:
>> There is the -r/--recent option that can do that.
> 
> does it also remove files that are not in backup, but are on disk?

dar only removes files when restoring a differential/incremental backup
that has recorded some file as "removed". Such entries are added when
files that were present in the backup of reference are absent from the
filesystem during the differential/incremental backup.

-r option does not change that, it just avoids overwriting files that
should be overwritten when the file on disk is more recent than the one
in the backup.

But files that were not covered by the backup are never removed by dar
> 
> Thanks again.
> 

Regards,
Denis