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On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:43:13 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: |
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> Hm, dar looks interesting. I'll have a look at it. The man page states |
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> that it is possible to restore individual files from an dar archive |
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> without reading the complete file (in contrast to tar). Is this also |
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> true when using compression and/or encryption? Would be a great feature |
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> for fast single file restores (Just mount the offsite location with |
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> sshfs or similar and tell dar to restore file25 from my 500GB backup |
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> without having to transfer the whole damn thing :) ) |
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The way I do it is to use the split feature to split the archive into |
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manageable chunks. It helps when an upload fails and when restoring you |
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just grab the catalog, try to restore from that and it tells you which |
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file(s) it needs. |
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