# Restore backup without full path (crossplatform backuping/restoring)

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [October 23, 2018, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/restore-backup-without-full-path-crossplatform-backuping-restoring/5040 "2018-10-23T10:21:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/restore-backup-without-full-path-crossplatform-backuping-restoring/5040/3 "2018-10-24T17:15:15Z")

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Several things surprise me, but I don’t have this configuration to try.

/usr/bin/duplicati is the tray icon. I’d have expected it would require /usr/bin/duplicati-cli to do any command line restore. Could you use the web UI? Even without a database you can “Direct restore from backup files”.

[The RESTORE command](https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/04-using-duplicati-from-the-command-line/#the-restore-command) takes a `<storage-URL>` which I’d have thought would have to begin with a “file://” however you wouldn’t have to set it up by hand if the web UI was successful in walking you through restore.

[–restore-path](https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/06-advanced-options/#restore-path) should have an effect, unless the situation was so confused it was just dropped, e.g. by tray icon, or unless cross-platform is special. There are limitations too. See [Cross platform restore not possible](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/cross-platform-restore-not-possible/4520).

[–dont-compress-restore-paths](https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/06-advanced-options/#dont-compress-restore-paths) ordinarily defaults to restoring the files at --restore-path without their folder, which you can just add on with --restore-path once you know it’s going to happen, but you got the full path.

Bottom line is I’m not sure what’s going on there, however isn’t a folder move an instant operation on Linux? Provided you’re not going to a different filesystem, it’s only a directory change. What’s the problem impact?

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