Re: tarsnap feature question

[Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net>]

--As of April 3, 2013 11:51:56 AM -0700, Michael Sierchio is alleged to 
have said:

> Of course not.  Neither does tar.  Neither does restore.
>
> I would never (as in NEVER) do a restore to a working directory,
> anyway - unless the specification for the file pattern (omitted in my
> example) was very specific.  I create a restore directory, cd into it,
> and traverse the tree to get whatever files I want, and copy them.

--As for the rest, it is mine.

I know of other backup products that can be configured to do so, and I've 
seen it be useful on occasion.  Sometimes precisely *to* remove the files 
that didn't exist at the time of the backup.

Daniel T. Staal

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