Re: ANN: tarsnapper

To: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>

Subject: Re: ANN: tarsnapper

From: Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald@gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:46:37 -0400

Cc: Michael Elsdörfer <michael@elsdoerfer.com>, tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com

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On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:

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

References:

ANN: tarsnapper
- From: Michael Elsdörfer <michael@elsdoerfer.com>
Re: ANN: tarsnapper
- From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>