Re: Restore in-place

* On 4/26/21 8:10 PM, Tobias Specht wrote:
> 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".

That's essentially the difference between
  tar -caf arch.tar . ; ... ; tar -xaf arch.tar
and
  (cd /; tar -caf arch.tar . ;); ... ; tar -xaf arch.tar -C /
in a manner of speaking.

You could emulate that via setting -R to / and using include and exclude filters
to only backup or extract the data you are actually interested in.

It might not be very convenient, but at least consistent with other tools.



Mihai