Re: Flat extract option

Denis Corbin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.dar.support
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 26/04/2021 19:52, Tobias Specht wrote:
> Hi Denis,

Hi Tobias,

> 
> The use-case I had in mind was, to restore a folder on a different location then it had been when making the backup.
> (Maybe you have reworked your folder structure)
> This option would give you more flexibility then restoring everything at the location it had been before.
> I'm not quite sure how common this use-case is though.
> As a workaround you can of course just move the folder after restore.
> It would just be more convenient to restore it at the right place in the first way.

it seems to me a very rare use case, but not complicated to implement
except the CLI/API level.

> 
> Do you see the intention of this option?
> Maybe you can set this feature on the "when there is time" list ^^

Yes, you can fill a feature request at
https://sourceforge.net/p/dar/feature-requests/
this way I cannot forget about it and we can exchange later when "there
will be time" to implement it :)

> 
> Best regards,
> Tobias 
> 
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Best Regards,
Denis
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