Restoring files directly into a single compressed archive

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Hi @matt you can already achieve this in at least two ways:

  1. Mount the restic repo at a file system with restic mount and then zip up the snapshot folder you want, with any filters you want, to a zip file.

  2. Mount a zip file as a fuse filesystem and then restore with restic into that flle system. Unmount the filesystem when finished and you have the zip file. (https://bitbucket.org/agalanin/fuse-zip)

Both method avoid ever restoring all the files to a real local file system that takes up space. In both cases the files go straight to a zip.

If you want to stream the zip file directly out of restic to e.g. some sftp location, then you will still need to cut some code I think.

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