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

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Saturday 02 of July 2005 19:43, 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.
>
> I think (A) is far more desirable.
It's probably not needed at all. Functions that create temporary files in 
python should use dir specified in one of these variables: TEMPDIR, TEMP, 
TMP. Just set one of these variables to desired directory.


> > thanks
> > -dean

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