Incremental restore vs full restore

[andrewchambers]

Bupstash supports incremental restores - it will only download files it detects have changed. This may be faster, I am not sure if other tools support this.

[basldfalksjdf]

This sounds like a really cool feature. But, out of curiosity, what is the use case for such a feature? An easy way to restore to an earlier snapshot rather than disaster recovery?

[andrewchambers]

Bupstash doesn't support mounting a filesystem as shown in the table - but as an alternative you can 'checkout' directories more like git and browse them, to do these checkouts efficiently it has incremental restore. It also functions as a way to resume restores that were interrupted.

[blackbit47]

Duplicacy always does incremental restores.
It will not download data that is already there unless you tell it to overwrite.

[basldfalksjdf]

Duplicacy always does incremental restores. It will not download data that is already there unless you tell it to overwrite.

Kopia can also ignore restoring existing files, but I am not sure that is the same thing as what @andrewchambers is saying bupstash has. Ignoring existing files is not the same as only restoring a file if it has changed.