Restore hangs

[Stéphane Alnet]

> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what I've gathered by looking
> over the brackup code and this mailing list.

I had proposed a patch some time ago which might be able to handle
downloading and decrypting the remote metafile, but it is mostly
untested. Tonight I merged a patch someone had posted a while back
which looks for local metafiles as an alternative. Code is at
  http://github.com/stephanealnet/brackup/
HTH,
Stéphane