Re: resuming backups

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 07/11/10 14:33, Michael Stevens wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 01:02:59PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
>> When you subsequently create a new archive, Tarsnap will recognize when data
>> it is processing is identical to previously-uploaded data -- including data in
>> the checkpointed archive -- and will only upload the new data.
> 
> Thanks, I'm trying this. Is there any way to check if I'm creating
> partial archives successfully? They don't show up with --list-archives.

The partial archives should show up after they have been committed -- in the
case of an archive interrupted due to a network outage, this will only happen
the next time you run 'tarsnap -c', 'tarsnap -d', or (in tarsnap 1.0.27 and
later) 'tarsnap --recover'.

Try running
# tarsnap --recover
# tarsnap --list-archives
and you should see an archive named "<something>.part".

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve
Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid