Restore & Time Machine

Browse history, diff versions, restore files, or mount snapshots as drives

Browse Snapshots

Explore your files as they were at any point in time.

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Select a backup source

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Click the Snapshots tab

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Pick a snapshot to browse files from that moment

💡 Snapshots are read-only views. Browsing them changes nothing — safe to explore freely.

Search Across Snapshots

Know the filename but not the date? Search across all snapshots at once.

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Type a filename into the search bar

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Ginkgo searches every snapshot (powered by FTS5 full-text search) and shows all matches

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Click any result to see the file details

Version History

A file may have dozens of versions. See its complete change history, side by side.

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Right-click any file in the browser

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Select "Version History"

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Browse every version of that file, with timestamps and sizes

💡 Every backup creates a new version for changed files. You can diff any two versions to see exactly what changed.

Version Diff

Compare two versions of a file side by side. Ginkgo uses SHA-256-based comparison to ignore noisy fields like timestamps, so you see only real content changes.

Restoring Files

Bring back a deleted file, or roll back to an earlier version.

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In Version History, select the version you want

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Click "Restore"

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Choose where to restore — original location or somewhere new

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Confirm. File restored instantly.

💡 Restoring never overwrites your current files. It copies the old version to the location you choose.

Exporting Snapshots

Export an entire snapshot as a tar or zip archive — useful for migration or sharing.

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In the snapshot list, pick the snapshot to export

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Click "Export"

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Choose format (tar or zip) and destination folder

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Wait for the export to finish