My Orange Pi 5 Plus got a bad update a few months ago via apt and refused to boot via the NVME disk afterward. I currently have no video, it doesn’t request an IP address on the network, and the board’s LEDs don’t seem to indicate a running system in any capacity… It’s just basically dead.
Luckily, I have a fairly recent backup (on the same NVME disk 
) that I’m going to attempt to restore from via the dietpi.txt first run setup option here.
Before I do that, I have a couple of questions I was hoping to get clarified:
- Is a restore attempt “destructive” to the backed up data at all? Ex: Is it deleted or modified in any way? I’d assume not…
- In general terms, if a folder was not part of the backup but still lives on the disk, will it be gone after the restore?
Thanks!