Re: Global Cache Dir Required?

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

Hi Mark (& list),

Mark McGranaghan wrote:
> Do all users of tarsnap for a particular tarsnap account effectively
> have to share the same cache dir?

For a particular account?  No.  For a particular key file?  Yes.

> [...] I tried `tarsnap -c -f
> other-archive-name-$timestamp other-archive-dir`

Err, why were you trying to archive a directory (other-archive-dir) which
didn't exist?  Or is there a typo somewhere here?

> Is there any way to operate tarsnap without using a cache dir at all?

No, the cache directory is a necessary part of Tarsnap's deduplication method.

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Colin Percival
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