Re: [rdiff-backup-users] restore old backups fails with gzip error -

[David Kempe]

Hunter Matthews wrote:
> CONCLUSION:
> There's an os.tmpfile() [or similar] call in rdiff-backup thats doing
> this. Rdiff-backup should be patched either 
> a) to use 'tmp' files in the restoration target, with the assumption
> that the user requesting restore knew what he/she/it was doing to have
> enough space there, but perhaps not on /tmp.
> b) add a command line arg to do that.

While your patches will be gladly accepted, a valid command line option 
might be to export an alternate tmp environment variable before the restore.

dave