<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
      type="topic" id="backup-restore">

  <info>
    <revision pkgversion="0.0.1" version="0.0.3" date="2015-01-28" status="draft"/>

    <link type="guide" xref="files#backup"/>
    <desc>Retrieve your files from a backup.</desc>

    <credit type="author">
      <name>Mate Documentation Team</name>
      <years>2015</years>
    </credit>

    <credit type="author">
      <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
      <years>2011</years>
    </credit>
    <credit>
      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
      <years>2011</years>
    </credit>

  </info>

<title>Restore a backup</title>

<p>If something went wrong and you lost some files and documents, you can restore from a recent backup (if you have one).</p>

<p>
If you simply copied your files to a safe location, such as an external hard drive, another computer on the network or a  USB drive, you can <link xref="files-copy">copy them</link> back to your computer.
  </p>
  <p>
If you used <app>Déjà Dup</app> (or some other backup application) to perform your backup, you should use <app>Déjà Dup</app> to restore your data from backup too. See the help for Déjà Dup for more information.
  </p>
</page>
