Backintime restore revert software

Allows to undo a restore if the .backup. files are still present.

This tool is for accidentally restoring a folder in Backintime with the backup option enabled. In that case you end up with something like myfile.txt and myfile.txt.backup.20180517. The latter one being your original, pre undo file. The other one the restored version. restore_revert just deletes the non .backup. version and renames the other on to it's original name. This is done for all pairs of such restored-original files in the specified folder (and sub folders).

Usage

    restore_revert [FLAGS] --dir <PATH>

FLAGS:
        --follow-symlink    Follow symlinks. Warning: use with caution, experimental!
    -h, --help              Prints help information
    -r, --rename-symlink    rename symlinks
    -s, --simulate          simulate revert, do not change files
    -V, --version           Prints version information
    -v, --verbose           verbose output

OPTIONS:
    -d, --dir <PATH>    start directory for revert

Example

Folder with files

a
a.backup.20180518
b
b.backup.20180518
c
c.backup.20180518
d
d.backup.20180518

a is the restored (old) version of file a.
a.backup.20180518 is the version present until the restore (newer).
restore_revert will delete a and rename a.backup.20180518 to a, reverting the restore of a from the BIT backup.