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Alex, I think you missed something here :)

Alternatively, you can tell Kickstart to ignore most errors and it will skip over this file. This comes in handy when restoring a backup you have already taken on a site that's no longer working: you can't exclude the file from the backup before restoring the site back to working order.

Akeeba Backup is designed very much like an airplane. There are multiple redundancies. Having a backup that can genuinely not be restored is very rare. The only way a backup is truly beyond restoration is if the backup archive is missing / truncated / corrupted, or if you are trying to restore a backup taken on a very old version of PHP and MySQL / MariaDB onto a much newer server which simply cannot work with that old site. Everything else is recoverable with varying degrees of effort.

Heh, I believe I know my software better than any search engine – and I have even documented it ;)

As I told you, you can alternatively use " Ignore most errors ":

Moreover, there is also the Ignore most errors checkbox. When it's checked, Kickstart will not throw an error when a file is not writable.

Moreover, if you want to extract specific files you can use Files To Extract:

Finally we have the Files to extract area. If you leave it empty (default) all of the contents of the backup archive will be extracted. Sometimes you only want to extract specific files which were unfortunately deleted or overwritten. In the olden days you'd have to extract the entire backup archive, find the files you need and upload them to your site. This option eliminates this need. Just enter one or more file paths or shell patterns, one on each line, and Kickstart will only extract these files. A few things you should know:

• All files and folders are expressed relative to the archive. For example, if you are extracting an archive to /home/myaccount/public_html/site and the file inside the archive is images/cat.png then you must use images/cat.png in Files to Extract, NOT /home/myaccount/public_html/site/images/cat.png.

• Always use forward slashes to separate folder names and file names, even on Windows. For example, images/cat.png is valid whereas images\cat.png is INVALID.

• You can use wildcards in the names. * matches any number of characters, ? matches exactly zero or one characters.

  For example images/cat.jp? matches images/cat.jpg and images/cat.jpe but NOT images/cat.jpeg. On the other hand, images/cat.jp*matches all three files.

  Wildcards apply to folder names as well. For example, images/*/cat.png matches both images/foo/cat.png and images/bar/cat.png. It does not, however, match images/cat.png since it's missing a second forward slash.

• If you want to extract all files and folders under a directory suffix it with /*. For example images/* will match all contents of the images folder. Be careful! Do not use *.* as it will only match folder and file names with a dot in their name!

• For geeks and power users only: this field is parsed by PHP's fnmatch() function. This means that you can use any shell pattern for more complex filename pattern matching. Using shell patterns is the only way, for example, to extract the files under a directory but not its subdirectories.