Can I restore only changed files from Crash Plan cloud backup?

I have two hard drives:

C drive has the windows install
D drive holds the user profiles (desktops, documents etc)

D drive was being backed up to Crash Plan, and this morning D drive failed.

As well as the Crash Plan backup, I also have a backup of D: drive on an external USB hard drive, but it's a couple of months old. To save time, I was wondering if it's possible to copy the contents of this external drive onto a replacement D: drive, and then only restore from Crash Plan the files that have since changed (plus new files)? We have a very slow connection, so this could potentially save quite a lot of time.

Does that sound feasible?

Matt Winward

Posted 2014-09-17T07:46:44.450

Reputation: 133

Answers

Unfortunately, the steps you list will not have the desired effect. CrashPlan will need to restore the entire online backup if it is selected for Restore.

Code42

Posted 2014-09-17T07:46:44.450

Reputation: 16

Thanks for the reply. This was the conclusion I came to in the end. It can only overwrite or rename, which is a shame - there is no option for skipping existing files, or for only overwriting older files. Would be really nice to have these features. – Matt Winward – 2015-09-23T10:05:20.887