Re: about usage scenarios

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> writes:


[...]

>> I guess the resulting backups work something like rsnapshot? If so
>> then is finding copies of stuff somewhat involved like it is with
>> rsnapshot?
>
> Not really.  It's like tar. ;)  You can restore specific files out of
> a backup by name, but you'll either need to get a file listing first,
> or know the name of the file you want.  There's a couple of different
> ways to let it know which files you want (shell patterns or read from
> a file).  I haven't tried it, but I suspect from the way that tarsnap
> works that it will have to do it somewhat like tar would: that it will
> have to read more of the archive than just the file it needs.  (How
> much more I don't know. Probably not quite as much as tar would...)

Good input... thanks for the detailed command lines and general
detailed helpful reply.



Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
writes:

> # tarsnap -cf archivename my/local/sshfs_mnt/dir/
>
> Tarsnap "behaves like" tar, so if you've got files in a mounted filesystem,
> you can archive them -- tarsnap neither knows nor cares where the kernel is
> getting the files from.

Good deal... thanks; So off I go to account creation.