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

["Alex Kirchhoff" <alex-tarsnap@kirchhoff.digital>]

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