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Re: "Extracting" a Tarsnap archive out to a tar file



On 5/5/24 14:14, Alex Kirchhoff wrote:
The Tarsnap manual page describes how to take a local tar file and put it into Tarsnap, e.g.:

     tarsnap -cf my-tarsnap-archive @my-tar-file.tar

Is there a way to do the reverse, turning a Tarsnap archive into a local tar file, without extracting to a local directory as an intermediate step?

     -r      Read the specified archive, convert it to a tar stream, and write
             it to stdout.

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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid