On 6/26/21 6:26 PM, Romo Hu wrote:
Hi,
My system has a daily cron job that does tarsnap backup which has been
running since 2017, and "tarsnap --list-archives" shows a lot of
archives. Should I care? Is it ok to just let the archive number keep
growing? If there will never be a need to res
On 3/14/21 7:04 PM, J. Hellenthal via tarsnap-users wrote:
Try any other browser ?
Nope. Why would I? The purchase went through.
Daniel T. Staal
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On 3/14/21 10:20 AM, hvjunk wrote:
Had the same this week when I made a USD50 payment. I*think* I first tried
with an Amex, had this problem and then I just retried with a MasterCard…
suspecting the Amex to be the problem.
Just to say I did *not* have this issue with an Amex payment just ove
--As of November 5, 2015 4:20:15 PM -0800, Colin Percival is alleged to
have said:
I think most consumers only use tarsnap to back up their more important
files, not the contents of their MP3 collections. ;-)
--As for the rest, it is mine.
I was using it to back up my movie collection for a
--As of September 29, 2015 3:06:39 PM -0400, Garance AE Drosehn is alleged
to have said:
On Sep 29, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:17 AM, James Turner
wrote:
tarsnap -d -f archivename-2014010101 -f archivename-2014010102
-f archivename-2014010103
It is
--As of June 23, 2015 10:56:29 AM +0300, Shinnok is alleged to have said:
I'd like to change the default directory for newly generated keys(via the
Setup Wizard for now) from the system specific APPDATA ones, which
currently are:
1. ~/.local/share/ on Linux/BSD
2. ~/Library/Application Support/
--As of August 15, 2014 9:21:49 AM -0700, Aaron C. de Bruyn is alleged to
have said:
Ok--I was under the impression it needed temp space to create the backup
before it deduplicated and uploaded to the server.
So I need somewhere semi-permanent to store the backups locally in
addition to storin
--As of June 29, 2014 6:40:39 PM -0700, jerry is alleged to have said:
The one major thing is that you never close your big if statement
(`if ( -e $excludes_filename )`). I think that means this will work
fine until the first time you run it on a directory without an
excludes file - when it wil
--As of June 29, 2014 6:04:01 AM -0700, jerry is alleged to have said:
Fair warning: I am not an expert Perl programmer. This thing seems to
work, but YMMV and
if your computer blows up into coruscating sparks, it's not my fault
--As for the rest, it is mine.
Could use a bit of a cleanup -
--As of June 29, 2014 7:48:19 AM -0700, jerry is alleged to have said:
The real problem here is that I really shouldn't change the data set
while backing it up, right? I really can't afford to have this data sit
without write access for multiple days. Totally impossible.
Yes and no... Ye
--As of June 27, 2014 2:19:19 PM -0500, William Morris is alleged to have
said:
Oops, looks like I was hasty. I took the quotes off and
it works, although I notice that adding a space at the
end of a line stops the line from working. I originally
didn’t have quotes and added them when it didn
--As of June 27, 2014 8:53:21 AM -0700, jerry is alleged to have said:
As a first try of tarsnap, I tried archiving my /root directory,
which I knew was pretty small. Or was it? Not only did it take a long
time, but the resulting archive was *BIG*. As in two gigabytes - ish. I
did a du -
--As of May 6, 2014 6:51:26 PM +0300, Ali Khalfan is alleged to have said:
I tried to backup a directory using an archive called sample using
"tarsnap -c -f sample /home/user/dir1".
Later I send a USR2 signal and then break the backup using ^C. When I
run the same tarsnap command again, I get
--As of March 22, 2014 1:24:17 PM +, jg5 is alleged to have said:
From one problem to another
I'm trying to backup my home directory, but get the following error:
sudo tarsnap -cf john.home_22032014 john
[sudo] password for john:
tarsnap: john/.gvfs: Cannot stat: Permission denied
Doe
--As of March 21, 2014 3:13:58 PM +, John Gamble is alleged to have
said:
Thanks again for your reply. Still slightly confused about this process
though…. In the scenario I'm thinking about, 'backup-wednesday.part'
and 'backup-thursday' wouldn't have any common files (or blocks of data).
Bringing the response back to the list.
Forwarded Message
Date: February 13, 2014 11:27:50 PM +0530
From: Vijay Barnwal
To: Daniel Staal
Subject: Re: Backup Restore (Was: Re: Getting started with Tarsnap)
Hi Daniel,
Its taking approx 20 minutes for a directory of
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
--As of February 12, 2014 6:54:01 PM +, jg5 is alleged to have said:
1). On the Tarsnap general usage page, can anyone please tell me what the
following means:
"The examples here assume that you are using a Tarsnap configuration file
including keyfile and cachedir directives."
What are 'ke
--As of January 23, 2014 8:32:14 AM -0800, Colin Percival is alleged to
have said:
Point it at anything with a modification time <= when the snapshot was
created. Obviously anything inside the snapshot will have this
property; as will a file you create prior to creating the snapshot.
Colin,
--As of December 13, 2013 10:39:22 PM -0800, Colin Percival is alleged to
have said:
A quick check sounds like the answer is 'yes, but': Technically, the
format supports basic transparency
Is that "pixels are either 100% transparent or 100% opaque"? That would
look even worse for the Tarsnap
--As of December 13, 2013 10:11:53 PM -0800, Colin Percival is alleged to
have said:
Minor suggestion: The favicon should have transparent not white corners.
The keyhole and the gaps should stay white.
Thanks for the suggestion! I can't seem to make the favicon.ico do this
(does the .ico for
2013 at 10:56 AM, Daniel Staal wrote:
None of which is particularly relevant - the likely determinate of backup
creation time is network speed, of your connection to the internet.
It's not exactly abnormal, but it is a bit slow - that's around 300 KBps.
How fast is your ISP connection?
--As of October 31, 2013 10:41:06 AM +0800, Hanxue Lee is alleged to have
said:
I thought that is a bit length on a machine with SSD, 16GB RAM and
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3615QM CPU @ 2.30GHz.
None of which is particularly relevant - the likely determinate of backup
creation time is network sp
--As of October 25, 2013 10:53:54 AM +0800, Hanxue Lee is alleged to have
said:
Is there a way to get tarsnap to print out file size in KB / MB / GB / TB
suffix?
--As for the rest, it is mine.
Yep: See the man page for '--humanize-numbers'.
Daniel T. Staal
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--As of September 28, 2013 9:01:03 PM -0400, Wendell is alleged to have
said:
Wow, I know this isn't a vote, but I really like this one...
On 09/28/2013 04:53 PM, Ben Lowery wrote:
Hi,
http://imgur.com/k6elBCU
Not a professional designer but I do like inkscape :).
--As for the rest, it is
--As of May 31, 2013 12:15:54 AM -0500, Ronak Patel is alleged to have said:
In my short amount of time, I've learned quite a few things on how to
use the terminal, everything from the basic such as sudo su to the
intermediate such as the chmod command and -- for me at least -- the
challengingly
--As of May 30, 2013 4:36:32 PM -0500, Ronak Patel is alleged to have said:
Currently my command looks like this:
tarsnap -c --keyfile /root/tarsnap.key --cachedir
/usr/local/tarsnap-cache -f rkpat20130530 --exclude
/home/rkpatel7/.gvfs /home/rkpatel7
I'm running tarsnap as root in order to be
--As of April 3, 2013 11:51:56 AM -0700, Michael Sierchio is alleged to
have said:
Of course not. Neither does tar. Neither does restore.
I would never (as in NEVER) do a restore to a working directory,
anyway - unless the specification for the file pattern (omitted in my
example) was very s
--As of April 3, 2013 11:16:57 AM -0700, Michael Sierchio is alleged to
have said:
and on the next day the dir looks like this:
root@pvpn-sf:...tmp/test # ls
a b c
and you perform a backup
tarsnap -c -f test2 /tmp/test
and if you restore from test2, you get only a b and c. This
--As of December 26, 2012 1:32:06 PM +0100, Amar Cosic is alleged to have
said:
Hello list,
anyone could give me idea how can I mail myself upon successful backup.
Something like: "backup on server xxx finished OK" and maybe output
tarsnap data (size of that backup etc..).
What I currently us
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