# Visual diff between backups sets when restoring
**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/visual-diff-between-backups-sets-when-restoring/6822
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [April 14, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/visual-diff-between-backups-sets-when-restoring/6822 "2019-04-14T15:33:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@caticity](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/caticity)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/visual-diff-between-backups-sets-when-restoring/6822/1 "2019-04-14T15:33:24Z")
When using restore and selecting the different versions / dates, is there a way to get a visual diff of which files have changed? Duplicati monitoring sent me a report saying something changed, which really surprised me since I didn’t do any changes at all in that folder, so I’m curious which file changed …
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### Author:  [@ts678](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/ts678)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2019, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/visual-diff-between-backups-sets-when-restoring/6822/2 "2019-04-14T21:15:32Z")
It’s not visual in a graphics sense (I wonder what that would look like?), but you can [compare](https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/04-using-duplicati-from-the-command-line/#the-compare-command) two versions.
[Two comparable backups, huge duration differences](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/two-comparable-backups-huge-duration-differences/5366/2?u=ts678)
[Feature request: List all backup sets with their size](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/feature-request-list-all-backup-sets-with-their-size/5257/6?u=ts678)
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### Author:  [@caticity](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/caticity)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/visual-diff-between-backups-sets-when-restoring/6822/3 "2019-04-14T22:53:24Z")
very cool I’ll give that a try, visually it could look like common unix diff tools with a gui, Meld, Kdiff3 or Kompare
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### Author:  [@ts678](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/ts678)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2019, 11:30pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/visual-diff-between-backups-sets-when-restoring/6822/4 "2019-04-14T23:30:56Z")
Those look pretty ambitious, and I suspect they rely on a built-in GUI (not a browser) and files sitting there. One can already have Duplicati restore two versions of a subtree somewhere, then study them with tools. Such pre-download may make sense even if Duplicati had a diff UI, in order to ensure UI responsiveness.
A cut-down version that works from local database info might be faster but doesn’t have the actual files…