On 24/05/2015 23:16, 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)?
A quick look at man libarchive-formats shows:
ustar The libarchive library can both read and write this format. This
format has the following limitations:
· Device major and minor numbers are limited to 21 bits. Nodes
with larger numbers will not be added to the archive.
· Path names in the archive are limited to 255 bytes. (Shorter
if there is no / character in exactly the right place.)
I don't know if ustar format is the one Colin uses, but do the missing
files have pathnames longer than 255 chars?
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