#restore

7 one-liners with this tag.

Discard local changes to a file

$git restore wp-config.php

Extract a tar.gz archive without overwriting files

$mkdir -p /tmp/restore && tar -xzf /var/backups/example.com-httpdocs-2026-10-09.tar.gz -C /tmp/restore --skip-old-files

cautionrsync and backup

Import a gzipped dump into the WordPress database

$gunzip -c /var/www/vhosts/example.com/db-backup.sql.gz | wp db import - --path=/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs

destructiveWP-CLI

Import a gzipped SQL dump into a database

$gunzip -c /var/www/vhosts/example.com/wp_example.sql.gz | mysql -u dbuser -p wp_example

destructiveMySQL and MariaDB

Recover lost commits using the reflog

$git reflog --date=iso -n 30

Restore a single file from a tar backup

$mkdir -p /tmp/restore && tar -xzf /var/backups/example.com-httpdocs-2026-10-09.tar.gz -C /tmp/restore ./wp-config.php

cautionrsync and backup

Restore an accidentally deleted branch

$git branch feature/contact-form a1b2c3d