Restore a session

Run restore without an id to list this machine's archived sessions. Each line includes the id, harness, machine, file count, and newest source time. Pass --machine to list another archived machine.

$ packbat restore

Pass the full session id or an unambiguous prefix. Packbat refuses a prefix that matches more than one id, and refuses an id that exists in more than one harness.

$ packbat restore <id-or-prefix>

The harness adapter maps every archived file back to its exact store location. Packbat creates missing parent directories and restores the original modified time. If a live file is newer, restore stops unless you pass --force.

Before decompressing or writing, Packbat hashes the archived bytes and compares them with the checksum in the index. A mismatch stops the restore. Database snapshots get a second content checksum and harness validation before they replace an absent database.