Re: no archive

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 11/22/10 23:15, Jurgen Weber wrote:
> I started an archive of about 300gb, the internet connection in question
> is not the fastest. We had a power failure on the machine with the
> terminal session open and there is nothing listed when I run:
> 
> tarsnap -vvv --list-archives
> 
> This is odd, as in my account the daily usage is at "33168772864bytes",
> so something is there.
> 
> Is this a case of start again? Does it just continue if I run again?
> What is the best approach?

Try running `tarsnap --recover`.  If you had checkpointing enabled (it's in the
example configuration file) then that will recover a partial archive.

(Tarsnap will also recover a snapshot automatically if you run tarsnap -c or
tarsnap -d.)

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