Re: Does tarsnap restore transfer only diff portion?

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 02/15/12 03:44, Bamoqi wrote:
> I want to restore a big tarsnap archive. Can I kill a tarsnap restoration
> process in one session and run the restoration command again in next session to
> continue, transfering only the remaining part?

No.  The --keep-newer-files option will almost do what you want, but if you kill
tarsnap halfway through extracting a file it won't finish the file on the next
pass (because it will see the file and think that it was already done).

I should probably add a --resume-extract option which only skips files if their
metadata matches the archive.

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Colin Percival
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