Re: Restore in-place

Hi Denis,

That sounds great.
Do you have already an idea when you want to integrate this feature into dar?

Best regards,
Tobias 

On April 28, 2021 10:59:26 PM GMT+02:00, Denis Corbin <[email protected]> wrote:
>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