Re: ANN: tarsnapper

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 08/28/10 06:45, Michael Elsdörfer wrote:
> I'd like to let everybody know about a small wrapper around tarsnap that
> I've written:
> 
> http://github.com/miracle2k/tarsnapper

Cool!

> The main thing I needed was something like a grandfather-father-son
> scheme to expire backups, but without encoding the backup type in the
> filename, and without having any expectations about when the backup
> script runs or has run in the past.

Yes, this seems like the right way to do things... with snapshotting, there's
no real need to decide which generation a backup belongs to in advance.

Thanks for writing this and making it available; I'm sure lots of people will
find it useful.

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