RE: first test of setup .. what is wrong here

["Hywel Mallett" <hmallett@vstrading.co.uk>]

The answer I guess is "it depends" upon the network connectivity between
you and Amazon S3. One downside I've seen is that the transfers do seem
to take a while, and don't seem to saturate our connection, so while
backups don't take long for us (8 minutes for 76 MB last night, but that
includes time to scan our entire dataset and determine duplicates etc),
test restores take quite a while, and get left to run overnight. Maybe
it doesn't help that I'm the wrong side of the Atlantic!
The output you've seen so far is normal. You won't be asked for a
password, you'll just see the stats printed when it's done. If you want
more verbose output you can use the -v switch (more than once if
required).
Bear in mind that subsequent backups (of duplicated data) will be
faster.

-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Putnam [mailto:reader@newsguy.com] 
Sent: 30 June 2011 05:12
To: tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com
Subject: first test of setup .. what is wrong here

Using `getting started' documentation and a few posts here I decided to
test my setup and make sure I understood what was to happen.

Ater creating account, passwd, config file I tried archiving a small
directory.

Less than 800 mb.  My command line:

   tarsnap -c -f test lc_dir

It's been running for over 10 minutes so far.  Judging by the flickering
light on network activity icon. It appears to be running.

I was never prompted for a passwd yet but the command has output this
... so far:

   Directory /usr/local/tarsnap-cache for "--cachedir \
   /usr/local/tarsnap-cache"

Nothing else in 12 minutes now.

I have a cable modem with comcast and normally have fairly fast up/down
loading.

I really hope this is a complete aberration and I have something wrong
locally, otherwise this is really going to suck. 
[I waited a bit more before posting... its been a full 17 minutes now,
and no change as yet. 



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