Re: [Duplicity-talk] Slow file restore

[Jacob]

On Fri, 30 May 2008 08:22:36 -0500
Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden> wrote:

> No, its just slow for this kind of process.  The underlying file
> structure is still tar, so there's no central directory.  It has to go
> through the entire full backup to find the file, then through all the
> incrementals to update the file.  Given that you were remote, a full
> restore could probably be done in just a bit more time than a single
> file restore.

But isn't that what volumes are for? Duplicity only grabs the volumes that 
contain the file you are looking for?

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