Re: Getting started with Tarsnap
On 02/12/14 12:15, David Williams wrote: I don't recall for sure, but it's entirely likely that the cache directory/files is not created until the first time you perform a backup. It is a cache, after all, and there probably isn't anything useful to put in there until tarsnap has done something. Yes, tarsnap will create the cache directory automatically if it doesn't already exist. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
Re: Getting started with Tarsnap
Hi Colin, Thanks for confirming that. Regards, John ## On 13 Feb 2014, at 11:50, Colin Percival cperc...@tarsnap.com wrote: On 02/12/14 12:15, David Williams wrote: I don't recall for sure, but it's entirely likely that the cache directory/files is not created until the first time you perform a backup. It is a cache, after all, and there probably isn't anything useful to put in there until tarsnap has done something. Yes, tarsnap will create the cache directory automatically if it doesn't already exist. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid John Gamble Senior Computer Biologist Cancer Genome Project Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Cambridge, UK CB10 1SA Tel: +44 (0)1223 - 834244 Ext: 7703 j...@sanger.ac.uk -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.
Re: Getting started with Tarsnap
Hi , I have a problem with restore a particular directory from tarsnap backup. Its taking too much time to restore a directory from archive backup. Please Help me to resolve this. My command is tarsnap -x -f backup backupPath Please tell me the command for fast restore. Thanks, Vijay Kumar Barnwal Manusis Technologies, Gurgaon(India) email: vijay.barn...@manusis.com mobile: +91-7503298247 On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:03 PM, John Gamble j...@sanger.ac.uk wrote: Hi Colin, Thanks for confirming that. Regards, John ## On 13 Feb 2014, at 11:50, Colin Percival cperc...@tarsnap.com wrote: On 02/12/14 12:15, David Williams wrote: I don't recall for sure, but it's entirely likely that the cache directory/files is not created until the first time you perform a backup. It is a cache, after all, and there probably isn't anything useful to put in there until tarsnap has done something. Yes, tarsnap will create the cache directory automatically if it doesn't already exist. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid John Gamble Senior Computer Biologist Cancer Genome Project Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Cambridge, UK CB10 1SA Tel: +44 (0)1223 - 834244 Ext: 7703 j...@sanger.ac.uk -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.
Backup Restore (Was: Re: Getting started with Tarsnap)
This really should be started in a new thread... --As of February 13, 2014 6:09:57 PM +0530, Vijay Barnwal is alleged to have said: I have a problem with restore a particular directory from tarsnap backup. Its taking too much time to restore a directory from archive backup. Please Help me to resolve this. My command is tarsnap -x -f backup backupPath Please tell me the command for fast restore. --As for the rest, it is mine. Define 'too much time': How fast is the restore going? Tarsnap is *online* backups - it has to download the data to do a restore. The problem could be your connection, the server, something upstream, etc. It's possible there's a problem Colin can/should fix, but that can't be determined from your posting. We need to know exactly what you are seeing. There are a couple options which can slow down your restore, but you'd have to set them in the config file for them to being slowing you down, so I doubt there are any options you could set that could significantly speed things up. Daniel T. Staal --- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---
