How to find a deleted file amongst many archives

2015-11-05 Thread Quinn Comendant
I'm evaluating tarsnap for personal use. I'm curious how I would find a single file amongst many archives. Let's say I have created hourly archives going back 30 days, and I have deleted a file from my local hard drive sometime in the previous 30 days, but do not know when. Is there a way to

Interpreting "dry-run archival without keys"

2015-11-05 Thread Quinn Comendant
I've just completed testing the "deduplication and compression without an account" suggested on the FAQ page (results below). I wanted to test performance and see how deduplication would effect the ultimate amount of data that would be uploaded. The process took about 8 hours, with fairly

Re: Feasability of using tarsnap on crap internet connections

2015-11-05 Thread Quinn Comendant
On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 22:25:38 +, Colin Percival wrote: > How long does it drop for? For the most part it drops only momentarily. I only notice because a SSH connection is lost, or my VPN disconnects and immediately re-connects. It's as if a bird flew in front of the antenna's line-of-sight.

Re: How to find a deleted file amongst many archives

2015-11-05 Thread Quinn Comendant
On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 13:01:18 -0500, Quinn Comendant wrote: > Is there a way to search all archives to find "the most recent file that > exist(s|ed) at the specified path"? Just to avoid anyone giving the obvious answer: I suppose I can always wrap `while` loops around `tarsnap