Excellent, thank you; I must have missed that when reading through the manual.
On Sun, May 5, 2024, at 2:18 PM, Colin Percival wrote: > On 5/5/24 14:14, Alex Kirchhoff wrote: >> The Tarsnap manual page describes how to take a local tar file and put it >> into Tarsnap, e.g.: >> >> tarsnap -cf my-tarsnap-archive @my-tar-file.tar >> >> Is there a way to do the reverse, turning a Tarsnap archive into a local tar >> file, without extracting to a local directory as an intermediate step? > > -r Read the specified archive, convert it to a tar stream, and > write > it to stdout. > > -- > Colin Percival > FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer > Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
