Re: Using dar for archives to optical discs

On 01/06/2023 19:26, Denis Corbin wrote:
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> On 31/05/2023 23:53, John Goerzen wrote:
>> Thank you, Denis.  This is helpful.  Some more comments/questions
>> inline:
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>> On Wed, May 31 2023, Denis Corbin wrote:
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>>> On 31/05/2023 17:54, John Goerzen wrote:
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> [...]
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>> Very nice!  I did some experiments with dar_manager and all this, and it
>> is looking promising.
>>
>> The one thing I'd like to be able to do is easily find what slice is
>> needed for a given restoration.  I can do that somewhat manually; with:
>>
>> dar_manager -B foo -f bar
>>
>> that will give me archive numbers, which dar_manager ... -l will
>> translate into filename for me.  From that, I can use dar -l -Tslice -g
>> bar to get the slices for each required backup file.
> 
> that's correct. Note that for more reliable thing there is an C/C++ API 
> and a python binding that could help (rather parsing the output of dar 
> and dar_manager)
> 

For info, I have made available the slicing information of the archive 
of reference present in a isolated catalogue (dar -l <cat> -q).

this is enhancement is available in release candidate for version 2.7.10 
(also available in git on branch_2.7.x)

https://dar.edrusb.org/dar.linux.free.fr/Interim_releases/

Cheers,
Denis