In article <[email protected]>, Swift Griggs <[email protected]> wrote: >On Mon, 2 May 2016, Christos Zoulas wrote: >> Doesn't that work? zcat dump.gz | restore -f - > >Yes it does. What I don't believe will work is this (interactive restores >when I only want to restore a few files): > >restore -i -f /path/to/mydump
It does; the dump format puts the directory info first so that it can restore the stuff you selected in a single pass (it does not need to seek backwards). Of course if you select some, restore, try to select some more, restore... It will not work since it will need to seek backwards then. Remember all this stuff was designed with tapes in mind, not random access devices. christos
