Re: How to find a deleted file amongst many archives

[Quinn Comendant <quinn@strangecode.com>]

On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 13:36:05 -0800, Colin Percival wrote:
> There's no built-in way to do this.  Due to tarsnap's encryption, there's no
> way to "index" the archives, so any built-in command would just do what you
> can do manually anyway; there didn't seem much point.

That makes sense. 

It would be pretty easy to create a local index during the backup process and save all file paths, upload timestamp, and archive names to a text file or sqlite db. This would make individual file restorations much quicker. Perhaps there exists a tarsnap wrapper that already has this feature?

Quinn