Re: no archive

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

Hi Jurgen,

On 11/22/10 23:51, Jurgen Weber wrote:
> Thanks, I ran it but it returned nothing but I am thinking it is not
> meant to

Hmm, yes.  I should probably change that. :-)

> because now I have a:
> 
> tarsnap -vvv --list-archives
> orientexpress-backup-16_11_2010.part    2010-11-16 14:42:40
> /usr/local/bin/tarsnap -c -v -f orientexpress-backup-16_11_2010
> /usr/CommuniGate /fileserver /usr/local/etc /etc

Yep, that's a partial archive (hence the .part in the archive name).

> If I then run my tarsnap command again, but with todays date.. it will
> do the incremental backup and continue?

Correct.  Or rather, it will create a new archive and the snapshotting
magic will avoid uploading any bits which were uploaded as part of the
archive run which created that .part archive.

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Colin Percival
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