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

[Hunter Matthews]

On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 17:31, David Kempe wrote:
> 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 

urk. I'll take a crack at it then... ;)

> might be to export an alternate tmp environment variable before the restore.
> 
I specifically thought of that (I still wonder if TMP or TEMPDIR or
somesuch would influence the current code) but thats wrong - either
rdiff-backup pays attention to where the user said to put the restore,
or it doesn't.




> dave
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