How to copy parts of a external USB backup back to NAS

[chezpaul]

Hello everyone,

I backed up my defective drive 1 from a 2 drive RAID 0 system to an external USB drive on my QNAP 251.
I bought a new drive, inserted it and recreate a new RAID 1 system.
The only important thing on my backup was all my Plex movies.
I would like to copy ONLY the movies located in a folder called plex.
But for some reason when I do a restore, I can only restore all of the drive, it doesn't see individual folders within the backup.
If I do a one way sync, it doesn't allow me to see the plex folder. It only sees the backup file system.

Before I took out the defective drive and had done the backup, I did try a restore in order to see if I could see the plex folder only and I could. But now I can't anymore.
What's the trick?

Thanks

[dolbyman]

Did you do a dedupe backup? Otherwise the external USB drive should just have a plain folder structure on it

[chezpaul]

At the root of the USB disk you see a Backup 1.qdff folder.
If you go in there you get 2 folders
- dedup
- filedesc

and 2 files:
- QNAPHybridBackupSync.info
- QNAPHybridBackupSync_full_4.db

I guess I did a dedup backup then. Is that bad? I didn't know there were different ones.

Even when I try to restore the full USB Disk, it just puts those same files in my new volume. I can't access the plex folder.