On 01/23/14 03:43, Albert Peschar wrote: > I've been using tarsnap for some months to do all kinds of backups. > Now, I'd like to use tarsnap to archive ZFS filesystem snapshots. What > is unclear to me is whether and how I should be using the --snaptime > option.
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. > And would someone be willing to explain why this is at all necessary? As the man page says, it avoids a race condition. ;-) I'm not sure how to state that any clearer... -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
