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Cc: vas@mpeks.tomsk.su, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: strange behavior of restore(8)
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Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote:

> if there are a lot of files, restore needs quite a bit of RAM.

It might need less to "extract" (restore -x) than to "restore"
(restore -r) -- but that only works if there's no need to load
an incremental afterwards.