A simple script to do a bulk restore of certain paths from all selected backups in a borg archive

borg_backup_batch_restore.sh

#!/bin/sh

set -euo pipefail


# Very simple script to extract all files from a list of archives
# The inlcude files is used to recursively only extract from paths specified in this file
# The include.txt has the following format
# R /path/to/include

# Note: this script might run very long depending on the number of archives and the number of data you have to restore. 

log ()
{
    for i in "$@"; do
        echo "$i";
    done
    echo "----"
}

extract ()
{
    log "Starting to extract $2"
    borg extract --list --patterns-from include.txt $1::$2 > "$2.extract.log" 2>&1
    len=$(wc -l $2.extract.log)
    log "Exactly" "$len" "files recreated"
    log "Done with $2 touched $len files"
}

#run this script as sudo to avoid permission issues with borg
BORG_PASSPHRASE=passphrase
export BORG_PASSPHRASE
archive_path=/path/to/archive
archivefilter=string-in-archive-name-that-is-filted-

archives=$(borg list --short $archive_path|grep "$archivefilter")
# archives=${archives[@]:0:10} # only for taking first n archieves from the string
log "working on these archives" "$archives"

for archive in $archives; do
    extract "$archive_path" "$archive"
done
log "Done with job all"