Backup Restore (Was: Re: Getting started with Tarsnap)

[Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net>]

This really should be started in a new thread...

--As of February 13, 2014 6:09:57 PM +0530, Vijay Barnwal is alleged to 
have said:

> I have a problem with restore a particular directory from tarsnap backup.
> Its taking too much time to restore a directory from archive backup.
> Please Help me to resolve this.
> My command is tarsnap -x -f backup backupPath
>
>
> Please tell me the command for fast restore.

--As for the rest, it is mine.

Define 'too much time': How fast is the restore going?

Tarsnap is *online* backups - it has to download the data to do a restore. 
The problem could be your connection, the server, something upstream, etc. 
It's possible there's a problem Colin can/should fix, but that can't be 
determined from your posting.  We need to know exactly what you are seeing.

There are a couple options which can slow down your restore, but you'd have 
to set them in the config file for them to being slowing you down, so I 
doubt there are any options you could set that could significantly speed 
things up.

Daniel T. Staal

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