Re: Restore in-place

On 28/04/2021 20:28, Tobias Specht wrote:
>> You want dar to record in the backups the root of the backup (either
>> explicitely specified with -R or implicitely when no -R option is
>> provided). At restoration or comparison time, if the user specifies
>> --in-place option no -R option should be provided and dar will use
>> the
>> path recorded at backup time for the root backup, which would restore
>> file in their original path.
>>
>> Is that correct?
> 
> Yes, that's what I'm thinking about :)
> 
>> What should be done when merging two backups having recorded two
>> different root backup? Does not storing any root backup directory
>> would be OK? 
> 
> Yes, that's probably all we can do in this case.
> 
>> In which case --in-place option would lead to an error?
> 
> Yes. This would be also the case, if this option is used in combination
> with an older archive version, without the extension.
> 
> For encrypted archives, it would be great, if the backup root path
> would be stored inside the encrypted part. So we do not leak any
> information.
> 
> 
> 

Yes, this was my intention: store this information within the catalogue
and along the archive (for sequential reading) with the inlined metadata
that are also encrypted

Cheers,
Denis