# Having troubles recovering a backup

**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/having-troubles-recovering-a-backup/12317
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**Created:** [May 4, 2021, 5:39am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/having-troubles-recovering-a-backup/12317 "2021-05-04T05:39:38Z")
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### Author: ![ts678](https://forum.duplicati.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@ts678](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/ts678)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2021, 11:30am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/having-troubles-recovering-a-backup/12317/3 "2021-05-04T11:30:13Z")

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Welcome to the forum @Alex_Turner

> [@Alex\_Turner](#):
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> `Duplicati.CommandLine.RecoveryTool.exe restore`

is the last step of several steps that I suspect weren’t done. The decryption happens at  
[Downloading all remote files using the Recovery Tool](https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/08-disaster-recovery/#downloading-all-remote-files-using-the-recovery-tool). For an overview of the steps, see  
[Recovering by using the Duplicati Recovery tool](https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/08-disaster-recovery/#recovering-by-using-the-duplicati-recovery-tool) or run RecoveryTool’s `help` command.

> [@Alex\_Turner](#):
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> ideally without using Duplicati?

If CLI RecoveryTool is not independent enough, see below for a little-used Python script:

[Independent restore program](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/independent-restore-program/2316)

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