playing with -s

["Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com>]

Hi,

I'm doing some experimenting with Tarsnap's -s option. This seems
really useful for avoiding shooting yourself in the head.

Of course, I don't want to do something easy. I want to substitute a
multi-part path, which means I have to escape /.

# tarsnap -xf etctest -s /^etc/var\/dr\/etc/p
tarsnap: Invalid replacement flag d

How can I escape characters in -s? Or am I missing something?

Context: Disaster recovery. If I've installed a brand new VM, I don't
want to restore the old VM's /etc over the top of the new one. It's
probably slightly different. I want to extract the whole of /etc so
it's handy, but have it out of the way.

Yes, I could use -C. But this seems like it *should* be perfectly
doable. I could even do this during archive creation, so that I don't
forget during an emergency restore...

Thanks,
==ml

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