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Re: Recursion limits
- To: tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com
- Subject: Re: Recursion limits
- From: Bob Eager <rde@tavi.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 23:28:43 +0100
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On Sun, 24 May 2015 15:16:12 -0700
Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> 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)?
I don't suppose the original archive was created with
--one-file-system, and the missing parts are the other side of a file
system boundary?