Partial restore?

[jinks]

I'm using rdup together with rdedup, so instead of having a unpacked file tree "at the other end", I have full rdup-format dumps.

If I have such a dump in rdup format, is there any way to only restore select files from that dump instead of recreating the whole structure? Looking through the man pages, neither rdup-tr nor rdup-up seem to offer a way to filter out only specific files.

[dpc]

I think you could convert the restored data (that is in rdup format) with rdup-tr to be tar, and then use tar flags to restore only parts of it.

Relevant example from man rdup-tr:

       Or even pack and unpack it on the fly

               rdup -P gzip -P "mcrypt -fKEY -c" /dev/null /home | rdup-tr -Otar | \
               ssh user@remotehost tar xvCf /tmp -

So you want:

rdedup ... load | rdup-tr -Otar | tar x...

[jinks]

Huh... I would never have thought of that, interesting "workaround".