Re: Confusion about including and excluding files in tarsnap.conf versus the command line

2019-03-14 Thread Craig Hartnett
Hi Graham, Thanks for your reply, and my humble apologies for the ridiculous length of time in responding. I blame Christmas. Have finally got back to this and I see the mistake in my script that meant the output file wasn't even being created. Totally my fault. Sorry. Craig On Sat,

Re: Confusion about including and excluding files in tarsnap.conf versus the command line

2018-11-24 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 05:33:03PM -0800, Craig Hartnett wrote: > Hi Graham, > > Thanks for your reply. Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. No problem. I'm glad it worked out! > The cron job has been happily running all week, so things are good. > However, the script at

Re: Confusion about including and excluding files in tarsnap.conf versus the command line

2018-11-12 Thread Graham Percival
On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 06:02:31PM -0800, Craig Hartnett wrote: > But I have to ask now, and it's something I think would be very useful > to include on the "Getting started" page, how long should the first > back-up take? I realise that's asking how long is a piece of string, but > my first

Re: Confusion about including and excluding files in tarsnap.conf versus the command line

2018-11-11 Thread Craig Hartnett
Hi Graham, On Thu, 2018-11-08 at 18:07 -0800, Graham Percival wrote: > Welcome! Thanks, and thanks for your reply. > Careful there! "--exclude" only accepts a single value. OK, that was clear in the config file, but not in the man page. > "tarsnap -c -f foo" doesn't work, even if we

Re: Confusion about including and excluding files in tarsnap.conf versus the command line

2018-11-09 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 07:57:42PM -0800, Michael Sierchio wrote: >envoyé par un téléphone mobile avec «autocorrect» démoniaque >On Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 18:07 Graham Percival <[1]gperc...@tarsnap.com >wrote: > > Careful there! "--exclude" only accepts a single value. > >Except

Re: Confusion about including and excluding files in tarsnap.conf versus the command line

2018-11-08 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 05:20:12PM -0800, Craig Hartnett wrote: > Just signed up Welcome! > (e.g., tarsnap --dry-run --print-stats --humanize-numbers > -c /media/USER/PATH > --exclude /media/USER/PATH/.Trash-1000 /media/USER/PATH/lost > +found /media/USER/PATH/OTHER-EXCLUDED-DIRECTORY) Careful