<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Michael Terry
-->

<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
      its:version="2.0"
      type="topic" style="task"
      id="restore-revert">
<info>
  <desc>Restore a previous version of a file</desc>
  <link type="guide" xref="index#restore"/>
  <credit type="author" its:translate="no">
    <name>Michael Terry</name>
  </credit>
  <license href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><p>Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Unported License</p></license>
</info>
<title>Restoring Specific Files</title>
<steps>
  <item><p>Switch to the <gui>Restore</gui> tab.</p></item>
  <item><p>Wait for the storage location to be scanned.</p></item>
  <item><p>Browse to the folder containing the file you want to restore.</p></item>
  <item><p>Select the file or files you want to restore by clicking on them.</p></item>
  <item><p>Click <gui style="button">Restore</gui> on the bottom left.</p></item>
  <item><p>A restore dialog will appear. Choose whether you want to override the original backed up files or restore to a new location.</p></item>
  <item><p>Click <gui style="button">Restore</gui> and wait for the restore to finish.</p></item>
</steps>
<note style="tip"><p>You can also choose the backup date from which you are restoring in the bottom right of the <gui>Restore</gui> tab.</p></note>
<note style="advanced"><p>You can also revert files on the command line:</p>
  		                 <screen><span its:translate="no">deja-dup --restore </span>FILE1 FILE2</screen></note>
</page>