Interrupted backups

2014-03-19 Thread John Gamble
Can anyone advise on the following please? In the event that a backup gets interrupted - either by technical problems or because it's taking so long and I want to switch off my computer - is Tarsnap able to pick up where it left off once the connection is re-established? Or would I have to

Re: Interrupted backups

2014-03-19 Thread John Gamble
Hi Marc, Thanks for your reply and apologies for not noticing that bit in the manual. So if I've understood it properly, the answer is yes, Tarsnap can re-start a partial archive. I guess the command to re-start would be exactly the same as the initial command. Would that be a fair

Key which can only delete 'old backups'

2014-03-19 Thread Richard Collins
I have been using tarsnap for a few months now and am finally getting around to automating deletion of old archives. On the server being backed up I have a write-only key which is used for the regular backups. It would be nice if after doing a backup, the backup script could delete archives older