Change Backup Destination during initial run

[JonMikelV]

@Antix

I must have discovered a bug, as the original file path (source of the backup) still existed so I caught Duplicati copying the original source file to the restore location, instead of reading from the backup files.

Nice job on the testing and documenting - you sound flag your own post as the solution!

The “copying the original source file” restore thing is a feature, not a bug. No, really! It’s designed so during a restore if the local file exists and matches what Duplicati is being asked to restore the local file is used since that will almost surely be faster than pulling from a backup.

In an actual restore scenario most people would probably want the fastest process possible. But, understandably, it’s much less desirable for test restores. For those, you want to use --no-local-blocks:

@kenkendk

When testing the restore, make sure you have --no-local-blocks set, otherwise Duplicati will use data from files on-disk to recreate the target files, which could hide problems with the remote data.