# Restore a backup

DBacked doesn't stop at backing up your database, it also takes care of the restore process. It's necessary because the backups created are not plug-and-play with pg_restore, mysqlrestore or mongorestore (Here's why).

The easiest way is to use the dbacked restore command. It will use the current config file (see configuration page) and fetch the list of available backups from S3 for DBacked Free and DBacked API for the pro version.

You need to specify the private key with the --private-key-path argument or the environment variable DBACKED_PRIVATE_KEY.

# Restore specific flags

DBacked includes multiple restore specific flags to allow you to automate the restore process:

• --last-backup: doesn't ask you to choose the backup, uses the last one
• --private-key-path: RSA PEM formatted private key to use to decrypt the backup, can be password protected
• --force: Do not ask for confirmation before restore
• --raw-input: Do not download backup from S3, read from stdin (you need to pipe with something like this cat backup | dbacked restore --raw-input)
• --raw-output: Do not pipe in database restore process but output decrypted backup without any DBacked specific formating
• -y: Do not ask for questions during process, only use env variables and arguments