projectrestore 3.6.0

Safely extract and restore project snapshots created by projectclone — secure, atomic, integrity-checked restore engine.

🛠️ projectrestore — Secure, Atomic, Verified Project Restore

projectrestore is the companion tool to
projectclone.

It safely restores project backups created via projectclone — with strict safety guarantees, atomic replacement, rollback, checksum verification, PID locking, and tar-bomb protection.

Mission: Restore project environments safely, predictably, and without trust assumptions — even across systems.

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✅ Key Features

Capability	Description
🔐 Atomic restore	Extracts to temp dir → atomic swap → rollback if failed
🛡️ Zero-trust archive validation	Rejects suspicious tar entries (symlink, device, traversal)
📦 Tarbomb protection	Max-files & max-bytes enforcement
🧾 SHA-256 integrity check	Optional digest validation before restore
🚫 Privilege-safe	Strip setuid/setgid, block device nodes
🔄 Dry-run validation	Verify archives without touching disk
🔒 PID locking	Prevent concurrent restores
🧯 Crash-safe	Best-effort rollback & cleanup
📁 Cross-platform	Works on Linux, Termux/Android, VPS, containers
⚡ No dependencies	Pure Python — clean install, small footprint

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🧩 Installation

pip install projectrestore

Or editable dev install:

git clone https://github.com/dhruv13x/projectrestore
cd projectrestore
pip install -e .


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🚀 Quick Start

Restore the latest backup made by projectclone:

projectrestore

Restore to a specific directory:

projectrestore --backup-dir ~/project_backups --extract-dir ./restored_project

Dry-run (validate only):

projectrestore --dry-run

Verify SHA-256 before restore:

projectrestore --checksum checksums.txt

Limit archive extraction:

projectrestore --max-files 50000 --max-bytes 2G

Debug logs:

projectrestore --debug


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🔍 How It Works (Safety Model)

1. Validate backup archive structure & metadata


2. Create PID lock → single-instance safety


3. Extract to isolated temporary directory


4. Apply strict checks:

No absolute paths

No ../ traversal

No symlinks / hardlinks

No device nodes / FIFO

No setuid/setgid preserved



5. Optionally verify SHA-256


6. Atomic swap:

Move old dir → backup

Move new dir → destination



7. Cleanup old state (or rollback on error)




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⚠️ Design Philosophy

> Separation of responsibilities
projectclone = capture
projectrestore = apply safely



This tool intentionally does not share codebase or execution surface with projectclone to ensure:

Security isolation

Clear trust boundary

Maintenance clarity

Lower blast radius

Independent versioning & release trains



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🧪 Exit Codes

Code	Meaning

0	Success
1	Error
2	Interrupted / signal
3	Another instance running (PID lock)



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📂 Compatibility

System	Supported

Linux	✅
WSL	✅
Termux / Android	✅
Docker	✅
macOS	⚠️ tar behavior varies — full support in v1.0



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🤝 Ecosystem

Tool	Purpose

projectclone	Create stateful reproducible project snapshots
projectrestore	Securely apply snapshots with verification & rollback


These tools form a reproducible project state suite.


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📦 Future Roadmap

Interactive restore preview (file diff, size, changeset)

Restore-to-new-path mode

Encrypted backup support

Signature verification (public key)

macOS hardened extractor extension



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✅ Requirements

Python 3.8+

Tar archives built by projectclone



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📜 License

MIT — free, open, audit-friendly, production-safe.


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👨‍💻 Author

Dhruv13x — [e-mail]
Designed for reproducibility, disaster-recovery, and zero-trust restore paths.


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> ⭐️ If this project saves your work or your sanity, consider starring the repo!
Issues & PRs welcome — security mindset first.



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