Re: Recursion limits

[Bob <lion@mtnlion.com>]

I'll try and let  you know. What I found when I attempted the restore 
was that /usr/local/www  didn't drill all the way down into 
/usr/local/www/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/.../..../.../.../... The 
backup was missing some of the deepest directories. It similarly seemed 
to choke on /usr/local . Admittedly, that is not a useful backup path, 
but I did try it. Again, it didn't get all the directories. In this case 
it missed /usr/local/www/wordpress entirely. I will run the dry run and 
check the results.

Thanks,
Bob

On 5/24/2015 3:18 PM, Colin Percival wrote:
> On 05/24/15 11:18, Bob wrote:
> > I recently attempted a restore and discovered that my backup didn't go down
> > the full directory tree for a couple of items. Is there a limit to the depth
> > tarsnap will recurse?
> Not one you should run into.  The only limits I'm aware of are the inevitable
> ones (e.g., "paths must fit into RAM").
>
> Can you reproduce the scenario with `tarsnap -c -v --dry-run` (which should
> list the objects which would be archived but not actually create an archive)?