Re: Restore in-place

Hi,


Am Mo., 26. Apr. 2021 um 23:54 Uhr schrieb Denis Corbin <[email protected]>:
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> On 26/04/2021 20:29, Stefan Hammerl via Dar-support wrote:
> > Hi Tobias, Hi Denis,
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> Hi Stefan,
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> > I see the purpose of this option, Tobias, but I also see problems
> > coming with it:
> > 1) What to do if the directory does not exist any more? Create it,
> > ignore the path or fail?
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> IMHO, if the user ask to restore something somewhere and that somewhere
> does not exist, this is an user error. There is so many way to
> "recreate" a path to a directory (permission? ownership? dates?...) that
> at a time the user must face its incoherence and assume it.

I agree with you. I assumed the intention was to use the in-place
behaviour as the default option (dar -x archive). But if you have to
enable it via --in-place option or similiar (as Tobias also suggested)
I do not see any problem, too. I should have made that more clearly.

[...]
Tobias wrote:
> I'm curious about your GUI. Are you using the libdar API?
No, I am not using the API as my application is meant to be platform
independent and among other reasens I chose to write it in Java. As I
only need a very reduced set of dar functionality I wrote a wrapper
for each command and the needed parameters each.

Best Regards,
Stefan