How to delete extra files on restore

[kris]

Hello,

Does anyone have a script or procedure to delete extra files (files which are not present in the backup) on restore? I used this feature extensibely with Duplicacy.

There are 3 ways I can think of:

• use robocopy /mir after restoring (only if source is available and restoring to current version)
• mount the snapshot and use robocopy /mir (has anyone tried this?)
• native support ([feature request] snapshot restore: add "robocopy /MIR" (mirror) equivalent · Issue #1535 · kopia/kopia · GitHub)

[iBackup]

Why not just delete the whole directory and restore backup ?

mount the snapshot and use robocopy /mir

/mir can DELETE files as well as copy them, so it will work since it is the same as /e /purge

[Nick_Chomey]

Did you find a solution for this? I, too, want to restore directories to whatever state they were in when I made the snapshot. And deleting the whole directory would use an unnecessary amount of time and bandwidth as opposed to using restore --skip-existing

It seems like using rclone sync is the best option for this, at least for me since I’m creating a repo with rclone.