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Werk #256: wato snapshots: snapshot restore no longer fails with older python versions

Component Setup
Title wato snapshots: snapshot restore no longer fails with older python versions
Date Jan 14, 2014
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.2.5i1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

Python versions <= 2.6.6 had problems on restoring snapshots files.
The python tarfile module crashed when it tried to unpack tarfiles with no content.
The new implementation now uses the tar from the command line instead of the python tarfile module.

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