Hi all, I repeatedly run into the following problem when my network seems to fail:
[user@important_documents]$ sudo tarsnap -cvf important_document.doc important_document.doc Please enter passphrase for keyfile /usr/local/tarsnap/videos.key: tarsnap: Creating checkpoint... done. tarsnap: Creating checkpoint... done. tarsnap: Creating checkpoint... done. tarsnap: Creating checkpoint... done. tarsnap: Creating checkpoint...tarsnap: Too many network failures [user@important_documents]$ sudo tarsnap -cvf important_document.doc important_document.doc tarsnap: An archive already exists with the name "important_document.part" tarsnap: Error creating new archive [user@important_documents]$ To solve this problem I have to give the following commands: sudo tarsnap -cvf important_document.doc2 important_document.doc Assuming this completed successfully I have then to remove the .part sudo tarsnap -dvf important_document.doc.part Then re-archive the original document with the intended file name sudo tarsnap -cvf important_document.doc important_document.doc and remove the old archive with the adapted name. sudo tarsnap -dvf important_document.doc2 This is a lot of work for me as this occurs quite often with my network. Isn't there some way to either make tarsnap really persistently (I already got a patch that removed a lot of the network failures) trying to complete archiving the file, or to have tarsnap recognise that if there is already some incomplete part, that it would be wise and nice to start with that one and complete the upload? Thanks
