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Comment by Normille | Hacker News Reader

Another happy long-term Duplicacy user here. My only problem with it is; on the rare occasions I need to restore something from backup, I can never remember the correct syntax and always have to look it up again.

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Same. I ended up writing the steps in a file because I could never remember them. It's not very complicated but a bit counter-intuitive: instead of pulling everything from the remote you first have to recreate "repository" with the same parameters as the original one, and _then_ run the restore command.

Make a script!

Or a do-nothing script if you don't want to automate it right away.

https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-...

Never seen that concept before. I've done similar in the past using aliases in my ~/.zshrc

  alias taskname='echo "blah. blah... instructions for task..."'

Of course, then I have to remember what nemonnic I used for 'taskname'!

I had the exact same reaction. I have little "README.md" text files scattered about to remind me how to do things and never thought to make an interactive post-it note.

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