On Apr 13 2021, Grunthos <[email protected]> wrote:
> OK..I just found this http://www.rath.org/s3ql-docs/tips.html which 
> suggests exactly the solution I have used.
>
> I wonder if there *might* be a better option for full file-system restore, 
> one of:
>
>
>    - copy the entire collection S3QL data from the remote to local first, 
>    then do a restore-from-local
>    - add a special s3ql command to do a 'tree copy' -- it would know 
>    exactly which blocks it needed and download them en-masse while restoring 
>    files (and would need a lot of cache, possibly even a temporary cache 
> drive)
>    - a limited version of the above option to pre-fill the cache with all 
>    remote data blocks needed for a particular part of the tree

Yes, all of these would be possible and probably be faster. I think
option (2) would me the best one.

Pull requests are welcome :-).


Best,
-Nikolaus

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