Restore backup without touching existing data--possible?

mvamos · March 22, 2025, 9:57am

I’ve read through the How to restore NextcloudPi Backup page. That page implies (see copied part, 4th paragraph below) that in order to preserve all of our files/data on the, in my case, USB-attached hard drive, we need to back up the entire drive (large amount of data/files).

Is that correct? I hope it’s not correct, because it’ll be a lot easier if I can fix this issue where NCP no longer works by just restoring the NCP files only. In fact I don’t have a second drive capable of holding all the data I’d need to back up and restore the hard drive!

Ultimately, does the NCP restore wipe the USB-attached drive? Does it lose file directories and not know file locations after?

Nextcloud Data, User, Files (using nc-backup - with includedata = yes)

amateurkicker · March 22, 2025, 10:14am

Do I understand correctly that you have the productive data on an external hard drive and that the backup is also created there?

Or do you mean that you only want to back up the configuration that isn’t on the external drive? But then where is the backup of the data from the external hard drive?

system · June 20, 2025, 10:15am

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