Restore w/o Duplicati

[scrognoid]

Is there a way to recovery my encrypted Google Drive archives if I can’t use Duplicati?

I love this software and want to keep using it. But I just went through several days and dozens of tries where Oauth did not work. Then it started working again. I never figured out why and stumped the forum. I of course could access Google Drive and see my encrypted blocks. If Oauth is that fragile I need to know my archives are recoverable some other way.

[kees-z]

This question has been asked more. Yes, it’s possible using a Python script:

Independent restore program

I’ve been using Duplicati 2 for a while now on multiple machines. What has piqued my interest is whether there is any (informal) specification of the storage format, or, relatedly, whether somebody has attempted to implement an independent tool to restore the files (not using any Duplicati code). If it hasn’t been done, I’d like to try to do so. (I usually try to do such things for backup tools, purely for peace of mind – in case Duplicati stops recognizing existing backups.)

You can also use the Duplicati.CommandLine.Recover.exe tool to recover files from encrypted Duplicati archives:

RecoveryTool Command options

Is their a list of command line options for restore? In particular to restore original file dates

You must download all files from the backend to local storage before using one of these tools.

[Pectojin]

@kees-z

You must download all files from the backend to local storage before using one of these tools.

It should also be noted that if you downloaded all the archives locally you can also use Duplicati to just restore from the local disk. No OAuth required.