It would be reassuring, even useful, to be able to inspect the Linode automated backup snapshots and be able to restore individual files or trees instead of the entire thing -- from the dashboard.

I don't know how difficult this is, or if there are unanticipated implications. It doesn't seem any more difficult than mounting and using ls or cp.

Might this be possible? Someday?

Thanks

Paul Brewer

This would be a wonderful feature, but I can see there could be a lot of work involved in its implementation.

A more straightforward but still very useful feature would be to be able to download the backups as an image/tarball etc.

The current plan is that you buy another node, restore to it, boot to finnix (or the backed up OS, but this may cause conflicts), download the files, then cancel the node, get 29 days refunded.
Total cost if restoring to a Li512: Less than $0.75.
If you don't like that, well... do rdiff-backups in addition to Linode backups, use the former for single file restores and latter for fast restores in case of catastrophe?

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