Re: Custom balance alert notifications

2024-03-09 Thread John Doherty
FWIW, I am tarsnap customer in the US and receive monthly invoices via email. You will not receive paper mail. As stated on the web site "non-Canadians... [must] provide a (physical) mailing address, as the invoice needs to show why you are not paying Canadian tax." On Sat 2024-03-09 12:20 PM

Getting rid of cruft... without the keyfile.

2021-10-29 Thread John Schofield
management software, and then realized I have no way of deleting these archives from Tarsnap. Like I said, they're not taking up much room, but I'd still like to nuke them. Is there a way to do so? Thanks very much! John --- John Mark Schofield j...@schof.org https://schof.org/contact

Re: Filesystem snapshots

2016-04-23 Thread John
htbulb-moment for me - continuing to update while creating the copy is no different to updating while backing up, it's just pushing the problem to one remove. I can see how it might be achieved instantly with a mirror dataset, freezing one and continuing to update the other, but we've not discussed those. John.

Re: Filesystem snapshots

2016-04-23 Thread John
l, as both of you agree, move the cache elsewhere. I hadn't thought of that. Even so, I still need to keep the SQL and email-server process writeable throughout the backup. John Harris

Re: tarsnap-keygen: Error registering with server (too many network failures)

2016-04-14 Thread John
On 04/14/2016 03:43 PM, John Noll wrote: Greetings: I am having difficulty generating a key using tarsnap-keygen: A google search came up with one suggestion that port 9279 needs to be opened for outgoing traffic, so I tried using ufw to achieve this: 1. You could test whether your firewall

tarsnap-keygen: Error registering with server (too many network failures)

2016-04-14 Thread John Noll
suggestions? Thanks, John Noll Research Fellow Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre University of Limerick, V94 NYD3 Ireland

Re: Glacier Storage

2015-02-23 Thread John Gamble
everything much simpler. Can you suggest what other service might be useful in this situation? I'm curious to know, as it might be something I'd want to look into at some point. Regards, John ## On 23 Feb 2015, at 03:32, Colin Percival cperc...@tarsnap.com wrote: Hi Hugo list, On 02/22/15 14

Re: Interrupted backups

2014-03-21 Thread John Gamble
, is the command ^Q? 2). While the backup is ongoing, is it OK to use the computer as normal? Thanks again and apologies for the continued questions. Regards, John Gamble ### On 20 Mar 2014, at 22:23, Colin Percival cperc...@tarsnap.com wrote: Hi John list, On 03/20/14 07:21, John Gamble wrote

Interrupted backups

2014-03-19 Thread John Gamble
to start the backup all over again? What would be the command for re-starting an interrupted backup? Thanks for any advice on this matter. Best wishes, John Gamble -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number

Re: Interrupted backups

2014-03-19 Thread John Gamble
assumption? If this isn't a completely thick question, how would I know the archive was now whole and complete? That is, no data missing or lost? Regards, John ## On 19 Mar 2014, at 14:31, Marc Hedlund m...@precipice.org wrote: See INTERRUPTING ARCHIVAL at http://www.tarsnap.com/man-tarsnap.1.html

Pre-flight checkā€¦.

2014-02-14 Thread John Gamble
was concerned that if, for some reason, I couldn't get the archiving to work, it might damage the original files. Thanks for any advice on these matters. Regards, John Gamble -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England

Re: Getting started with Tarsnap

2014-02-13 Thread John Gamble
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