How to restore a LE Backup from .tar file on the command-line?

    Hi there,

    Could someone please show me the commands for CLI on how to restore a .tar backup file that was created via GUI. I am connected to LibreELEC via SSH for this purpose.

    Many thanks in advance!

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    * Asrock J5005-ITX
    * x86 LibreELEC 12.x (most recent)
    * iMon VFD 310 und iMon Pad

    • Best Answer

    Create /storage/.restore and place the backup file there and reboot. On restart it will be detected, the dirs that will be overwritten will be deleted (/storage/.kodi, /storage/.config, and /storage/.cache) and then the backup is decompressed to /

    You can also use the restore function in the GUI which will copy the file from wherever you have it to /storage/.restore then force a reboot to start the process.

    Or use tar commands to extract files and do other things with the backup file. It's just a standard tar archive.