On 04/04/2022 6:19 PM Dylan Whyte <d.whyte@proxmox.com> wrote:

 
Prior to this, during an interactive restore, if a directory was matched
via a pattern match or selection, only the empty directory would be
restored, and not its contents. 

Why not simply use "**" if you want to restore a whole tree?

I had originally thought about this, but there are some good reasons for the patch:

• I believe there is an expectation when selecting a directory for restore, that you would like for the entire directory to be restored (unless any sub-directory is explicitly excluded).
• The 'select' command doesn't do pattern matching, so it wouldn't be able to use '**' to restore the directory. This point doesn't apply to 'find' and 'restore --pattern'.
  
• With the current implementation, '**' won't restore empty sub-directories of a matched directory, in spite of the fact that they appear in the match list.