# Restore fails - need help

**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/restore-fails-need-help/3686
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 31, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/restore-fails-need-help/3686 "2018-05-31T17:45:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![usefulvid](https://forum.duplicati.com/user_avatar/forum.duplicati.com/usefulvid/32/4811_2.png) [@usefulvid](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/usefulvid)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/restore-fails-need-help/3686/1 "2018-05-31T17:45:52Z")

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I tried to recover my backup from locally stored files.  
It took hours to build up the database.  
During (or after) this proccess Duplicati seemed to have crashed (I could not access the web gui).  
I was able to restart duplicati with init.d  
There is no entry in the log from this time span.  
Is there any way to continue this restore (which was already running for hours)?

> **System environement**
>
> ```
> APIVersion : 1
> PasswordPlaceholder : **********
> ServerVersion : 2.0.3.5
> ServerVersionName : - 2.0.3.5_canary_2018-04-13
> ServerVersionType : Canary
> StartedBy : Server
> BaseVersionName : 2.0.3.5_canary_2018-04-13
> DefaultUpdateChannel : Canary
> DefaultUsageReportLevel : Information
> ServerTime : 2018-05-31T18:39:44.383714+02:00
> OSType : Linux
> DirectorySeparator : /
> PathSeparator : :
> CaseSensitiveFilesystem : true
> MonoVersion : 5.10.0.160
> MachineName : NAS4TBDEMO
> UserName : admin
> NewLine :
> CLRVersion : 4.0.30319.42000
> CLROSInfo : {"Platform":"Unix","ServicePack":"","Version":"4.2.8.0","VersionString":"Unix 4.2.8.0"}
> ServerModules : []
> UsingAlternateUpdateURLs : false
> LogLevels : ["ExplicitOnly","Profiling","Verbose","Retry","Information","DryRun","Warning","Error"]
> SuppressDonationMessages : false
> SpecialFolders : [{"ID":"%MY_DOCUMENTS%","Path":"/share/CE_CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/Duplicati"},{"ID":"%HOME%","Path":"/share/CE_CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/Duplicati"}]
> BrowserLocale : {"Code":"de-DE","EnglishName":"German (Germany)","DisplayName":"Deutsch (Deutschland)"}
> SupportedLocales : [{"Code":"cs","EnglishName":"Czech","DisplayName":"čeština"},{"Code":"da","EnglishName":"Danish","DisplayName":"dansk"},{"Code":"de","EnglishName":"German","DisplayName":"Deutsch"},{"Code":"en","EnglishName":"English","DisplayName":"English"},{"Code":"es","EnglishName":"Spanish","DisplayName":"español"},{"Code":"fi","EnglishName":"Finnish","DisplayName":"suomi"},{"Code":"fr","EnglishName":"French","DisplayName":"français"},{"Code":"it","EnglishName":"Italian","DisplayName":"italiano"},{"Code":"lt","EnglishName":"Lithuanian","DisplayName":"lietuvių"},{"Code":"lv","EnglishName":"Latvian","DisplayName":"latviešu"},{"Code":"nl-NL","EnglishName":"Dutch (Netherlands)","DisplayName":"Nederlands (Nederland)"},{"Code":"pl","EnglishName":"Polish","DisplayName":"polski"},{"Code":"pt","EnglishName":"Portuguese","DisplayName":"português"},{"Code":"pt-BR","EnglishName":"Portuguese (Brazil)","DisplayName":"português (Brasil)"},{"Code":"ru","EnglishName":"Russian","DisplayName":"русский"},{"Code":"sk-SK","EnglishName":"Slovak (Slovakia)","DisplayName":"slovenčina (Slovensko)"},{"Code":"zh-CN","EnglishName":"Chinese (Simplified)","DisplayName":"中文 (中国)"},{"Code":"zh-HK","EnglishName":"Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR China)","DisplayName":"中文 (中国香港特别行政区)"},{"Code":"zh-TW","EnglishName":"Chinese (Traditional)","DisplayName":"中文 (台湾)"}]
> BrowserLocaleSupported : true
> backendgroups : {"std":{"ftp":null,"ssh":null,"webdav":null,"openstack":"OpenStack Object Storage / Swift","s3":"S3 Kompatibel","aftp":"FTP (Alternativ)"},"local":{"file":null},"prop":{"s3":null,"azure":null,"googledrive":null,"onedrive":null,"onedrivev2":null,"sharepoint":null,"msgroup":null,"cloudfiles":null,"gcs":null,"openstack":null,"hubic":null,"amzcd":null,"b2":null,"mega":null,"box":null,"od4b":null,"mssp":null,"dropbox":null,"sia":null,"jottacloud":null,"rclone":null}}
> GroupTypes : ["Lokaler Speicher","Standardprotokolle","Proprietär","Weitere"]
> Backend-Module:
> 
> aftp
> 
> amzcd
> 
> azure
> 
> b2
> 
> box
> 
> cloudfiles
> 
> dropbox
> 
> ftp
> 
> file
> 
> googledrive
> 
> gcs
> 
> hubic
> 
> jottacloud
> 
> mega
> 
> msgroup
> 
> onedrive
> 
> onedrivev2
> 
> sharepoint
> 
> openstack
> 
> rclone
> 
> s3
> 
> ssh
> 
> od4b
> 
> mssp
> 
> sia
> 
> tahoe
> 
> webdav
> Kompression:
> 
> zip
> 
> 7z
> Verschlüsselungen:
> 
> aes
> 
> gpg 
> 
> ```

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### Author: ![JonMikelV](https://forum.duplicati.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JonMikelV](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/JonMikelV)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2018, 2:17am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/restore-fails-need-help/3686/2 "2018-06-04T02:17:28Z")

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> [@usefulvid](#):
>
> Is there any way to continue this restore

Unfortunately, Duplicati currently doesn’t allow restores to be “continued”.

Note that trying `--overwrite=false` will just restore the file again but with a timestamp added.

Perhaps it would make sense to change `--overwrite` from a boolean to a string and allow things like:

- `--overwrite=ignore` to indicate existing files should not be restored
- `--overwrite=verify` to indicate existing files should be size, date/time, hash checked to see if they need to be overwritten