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

[Hunter Matthews]

As stated in the thread, that possibility was considered and rejected.

On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 04:30, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> 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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