Batch restore file version

[fbaeuerle]

It would be nice to have an option to restore a selection of files to e.g. their previous version, or a version before a certain point in time.

I just had the issue where I accidently emptied the contents of a few hundered CSV files. I solved the problem by manually grabbing the old versions from the owncloud-storage directory of the server, since clicking every file for restoring version would have taken ages.

[semiversus]

If you have direct access to the nextcloud server it's possible to revert the files manually by searching through data/USER/files_versions. But yeah, I came here while searching for the exact same functionality. Would be nice to (readonly?) mount a webdav share at a specific version (or point in time) maybe by adding a additional parameter to the url.

[fbaeuerle]

As written above, that is exactly what I did.

But you bring in a new interesting point that sounds a bit like the snapshot-function of CoW-filesystems. Maybe you want file a new bug for that one?

[semiversus]

I started to write a simple script which is generating a folder tree with soft links to the appropriate files. Two arguments have to be given: path to nextcloud/data directory and a timestamp. Seems pretty simple at the moment but maybe it's harder than I think right now...

[biva]

Probably related to #7473

[biva]

@semiversus and @Mrflow I'd like to recover the former versions in files_version folder, but they all have an extension like v1262190079. For example, how could I rename Photo 011.jpg.v1262190079 into Photo 011.jpg?
Thank you!

[biva]

Solution under Windows to rename files in bulk: www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk tick "subfolders" and chose "remove extension"

[skjnldsv]

As this sounds like a nice feature, the requests for this are quite low. Currently there a no plans to implement such a feature. Thus I will close this ticket for now. This does not mean we don't want this feature, but it is simply not on our roadmap for the near future. If somebody wants to implement this feature nevertheless we are happy to assist and help out.

If you wish to have this feature implemented by the Nextcloud GmbH there is the option for consulting work on top of your Nextcloud Enterprise subscription to get your features implemented.

[mrAceT]

I just thought of something like this exactly.. I luckily haven't the need.. but how would it fix a desaster scenario where a user would get hacked and all his/her hundreds of files would get encrypted for ransom..

How could I restore all (or a selection?) of files to a certain date?

What I fear makes things a bit more difficult is that I use AWS-S3 storage..

Some insights would be greatly appreciated