Re: Restore in-place

Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.dar.support
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 25.04.21 11:50, Tobias Specht wrote:
>I'm usually doing an "online" backup with dar. This means, I create the backup while my system is running.
>Example: dar -R /home/tobias/Documents -c /var/backup/documents
> 
>The same does usually also apply, if I want to restore some files from the backup.
>Example: dar -R /home/tobias/Documents -x /var/backup/documents -g foo/file1.txt

If you want to store full path of archived files, the best option would be
to use:

dar -c /var/backup/documents -g /home/tobias/Documents

...unfortunately dar refuses absolute paths:

Parse error: Cannot add an absolute path

the alternative could be:

dar -c /var/backup/documents -R / -g home/tobias/Documents


note that when using tar, you have the same issue:

tar: Removing leading `/' from member names


Note that using absolute paths can be dangerous and that's why tar by
defaults prevents that (tar does have -P option), and for dat I guess it's
the same.

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