Re: Restore in-place

On 25/04/2021 11:50, Tobias Specht wrote:
> Hi Denis,

Hi Tobias,

> 
> I'm usually doing an "online" backup with dar. This means, I create the 
backup while my system is running.
> Example: dar -R /home/tobias/Documents -c /var/backup/documents
>  
> The same does usually also apply, if I want to restore some files from the backup.
> Example: dar -R /home/tobias/Documents -x /var/backup/documents -g foo/file1.txt
> 
> In this way, the path where I created the backup from and the path where I want to restore the file are identically.
> From a usability perspective, it would be great, to tell dar to extract 
the file foo/file1.txt from the given archive /var/backup/documents "in-place".

I'm not sure to understand: if you want ot have foo/file1.txt and
directory restored in /tmp for example you just have to modify the -R
option accordingly:

dar -R /tmp -x /var/backup/documents -g foo/file1.txt

you will get /tmp/foo/file1.txt and all the directory tree you restored
that were previously located in /home/tobias/Documents would also take
place under /tmp

> This would require dar to save the source path in the archive when creating the backup.
> Is this possible with dar?
> As far as I can see, there is something like that in the dar_manager.

not sure about would you do refer, dar_manager relies on dar to restore
thus this should not be different with dar_manager.

> Do you think, this option would be helpful to have in dar?

I think you can already do this today, as explained above, let me know!

> 
> A workaround would be to use the --user-comment option to save the source path. 
> But I think this is not an optimal solution.>
> Best regards,
> Tobias
> 

Cheers,
Denis