Re: Restore in-place

On 26/04/2021 20:10, Tobias Specht wrote:
> Hi Denis,
>  
> I think there was a misunderstanding.
> My idea was to restore the file at its original location (eg. /home/tobias/Documents/foo/file1.txt),
> but without having to specify -R /home/tobias/Documents.
> Instead, you would say something like --in-place, or dar would default -R to the source folder of the backup.
> This option would also be handy when you browse the archive with a UI.
> Then you can restore a file/folder without selecting the target location and just click on "restore".
>  
> Do you see what I mean?

Yep, I see, that makes sense. Though you still have to tell where to
restore, but don't have to "move down" around the restored
directory/tree from larger tree...

>  
> Regarding dar_manager, I thought there would be an option to "save" the 
-R option and then extract files without having to specify -R again.
> But maybe I misunderstood that.

there is not such option with dar_manager, but the feature you describe
could be interesting here too

>  
> Best regards,
> Tobias
>  
>  
>

Cheers,
Denis