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Re: "Extracting" a Tarsnap archive out to a tar file
Excellent, thank you; I must have missed that when reading through the manual.
On Sun, May 5, 2024, at 2:18 PM, Colin Percival wrote:
> 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