On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Daniel Staal <[email protected]> wrote:
> But if the directory *you are restoring to* has x y and z, do they still > exist after the restore? Does tarsnap *delete* them because they weren't in > the backup set? Or does it just restore all the files that *were* in the > backup set, and leave the rest alone? That's the question. Of course not. Neither does tar. Neither does restore. I would never (as in NEVER) do a restore to a working directory, anyway - unless the specification for the file pattern (omitted in my example) was very specific. I create a restore directory, cd into it, and traverse the tree to get whatever files I want, and copy them.
