How do I restore from dirvish?
Each image is a complete copy of what existed at the time it was made so all that is needed to restore from an image is to copy the files. It is essential to preserve ownership, permissions and modification time of restored files. Rsync is a very good way but scp or streaming tar or cpio archives from the backup server will work as well. It is also possible to do a read-only export of a dirvish vault using a network file system such as NFS or CIFS/SMB. This or network mounting the source directories on the backup server will allow the use of a simple copy command to restore files. It should be remembered that NFS over UDP does have a measurable error rate so exercise caution doing large restores over NFS. The permissions of all the files in a vault are the same as the source location so there is little security risk to doing so. It might however be better not to give users access to this as it will encourage lazy habits. —————————————————— back to Di
