On 03/08/14 14:51, tarsnap wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 16:06:15 +
> Colin Percival wrote:
>> You can try creating an archive with the same name as you used
>> before. If it fails, that means the previous archive got created
>> successfully.
>
> Ok. Just for confirmation: this will re-use the
On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 16:06:15 +
Colin Percival wrote:
> On 03/08/14 07:24, tarsnap wrote:
> > On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 14:41:50 +
> > Colin Percival wrote:
> >> I'd recommend using the --checkpoint-bytes option with a fairly low
> >> setting (e.g., --checkpoint-bytes 32M) so that you'll have lot
One could capture the .exclude files prior to the execution of tarsnap and
generate a -X exclude.file
On 7 March 2014 11:39:19 WET, David Williams wrote:
>Is there a way to have a per-directory .exclude file or similar which
>tarsnap consults while traversing the file tree? I run tarsnap daily
On 03/08/14 07:24, tarsnap wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 14:41:50 +
> Colin Percival wrote:
>> I'd recommend using the --checkpoint-bytes option with a fairly low
>> setting (e.g., --checkpoint-bytes 32M) so that you'll have lots of
>> checkpoints created. That way when an archive fails you'll
On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 14:41:50 +
Colin Percival wrote:
> On 03/08/14 06:29, tarsnap wrote:
> > Continuing a thread from Jul 2011, I would like to know if in case
> > of backing up 1 file (>1 GB) and tarsnap quitting due to 'Too many
> > network failures', parts of the file are retained on the se
On 03/07/14 13:52, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> I ended up cleaning up and gemifying our little tool for running parallel
> extracts:
>
> https://github.com/directededge/redsnapper
>
> http://rubygems.org/gems/redsnapper
>
> Doing this will use 25 parallel clients (from testing 25 seemed to be about
On 03/08/14 06:29, tarsnap wrote:
> Continuing a thread from Jul 2011, I would like to know if in case of
> backing up 1 file (>1 GB) and tarsnap quitting due to 'Too many network
> failures', parts of the file are retained on the server, and re-used
> when repeating the backup command in tarsnap.
Continuing a thread from Jul 2011, I would like to know if in case of
backing up 1 file (>1 GB) and tarsnap quitting due to 'Too many network
failures', parts of the file are retained on the server, and re-used
when repeating the backup command in tarsnap.
I got the uncomfortable feeling that the
