[danohu]

How can I download backups into a different directory from where they originated?

[I was just trying out tarsnap, go to the restore test section, and was a bit stumped. It seems like "-xC /other/dir" might do it, but the man page is pretty opaque. I'd like to test a restore without the risk of clobbering my data with some misconfigured backup!]

[crzwdjk]

It works just like tar for the most part, so it extracts into whatever the current working directory happens to be. I'd just do (cd /other/dir; tarsnap -x -f whatever-archive).

[danohu]

Thanks, that makes sense