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

[dean gaudet]

On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Ben Escoto wrote:

> >>>>> Hunter Matthews <address@hidden>
> >>>>> wrote the following on Sat, 02 Jul 2005 13:43:58 -0400
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Oops you are right.  Dean I saw below that you found the problem, does
> it still need fixing?  

nope i didn't figure out the right way to fix it... istr i couldn't figure 
out how to get the right path to the right bit of the code ... without a 
global variable kludge :)

-dean