Restoring with rsync

[stuckinthe90s]

I recently accidentally deleted every empty folder and file in my home folder.

This left me with a few problems as you might have guessed. But it wasn’t crippling.

Luckily I keep backups of my RPi image.

The last backup I made was about a month ago. So it’s a bit outdated. My “broken” system still boots and plays games just fine but there are some components missing from now. For example, the entire RetroPie configuration menu has been deleted.
I need that.

I backed up my broken configuration to a USB with rsync. And then wrote my old backup image to the SD card and booted into it.

All I want to do is update my backup with the information on my usb stick from my broken system.

For the life of me I can’t get this right.

Should

sudo rsync -avh --update /mnt/ /

work since it’s mostly all the same information? I’ve been trying it with --delete Which just left me with an exact copy of my broken system.

[mitu]

@stuckinthe90s said in Restoring with rsync:

For example, the entire RetroPie configuration menu has been deleted.

You can get it back by re-installing the retropiemenu package. For the rest, I think it's better to use your backup and just rsync back the ROM folders.

[stuckinthe90s]

I ended up just using the rsync command from my first post.

I didn’t expect it to work but, Everything seems to be back to normal now.

Although I didn’t know I could merely just reinstall the RetroPie manager.

Thanks @mitu!