Monday 20 Mar 2023

Restore previous versions (B2)

I was testing backup restores and was wondering: how to restore a delete file or previous version in my B2 storage. This is assuming you have enabled versioning on your B2 bucket.

As usual, rclone has us covered. My remotes are encrypted so I need rclone to view file names. Use the command:

rclone ls remote:dir/ --b2-versions

Or for more details

rclone lsl remote:dir/ --b2-versions

You will get an output of previous versions:

super-important-file-v2023-03-13-100755-166.bak
super-important-file-v2023-03-10-193737-104.bak
super-important-file-v2023-03-10-193257-296.bak
super-important-file-v2023-03-08-080243-354.bak
super-important-file-v2023-03-08-075833-207.bak
super-important-file-v2023-03-08-075825-995.bak
super-important-file-v2023-03-08-075727-966.bak

It was easy to copy the version I wanted:

rclone copy remote:dir/super-important-file-v2023-03-13-100755-166.bak -b2-version C:\Dir

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