Recovering Specific Folders (partial restores)

Restoring sub folders is a multi-step process.

  1. Pull back the DONT_DELETE.txt files
  2. (optionally) pull back the folder with big files if archived with --size <size>
  3. Find the needed tars with: unarchivetar --prefix my-prefix --which-archive --folder "exactfolder/subfolder"
  4. Recall the required tars returned by the prior command
  5. Expand: unarchivetar --prefix my-prefix --folder "exactfolder/subfolder"

Folder names must be exact and not have a trailing /. You can optionally use grep and look around the index and DONT_DELETE files yourself if unsure of the exact name.