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

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 06/29/11 21:12, Harry Putnam wrote:
> 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.

Ok, so what's the problem?

> I was never prompted for a passwd yet

You won't be.  Your key file has all the credentials needed to create an
archive.  (Unless you make it passphrase-protected, in which case you
would need to enter the passphrase, of course.)

> 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.

If you add the '-v' option you'll get a list of files as they are being
added to the archive.  The default behaviour is fairly quiet, since most
people use tarsnap from within scripts or cron jobs and don't want lots
of noise.

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

Cable modems typically upload at between 512 kbps and 2 Mbps; for 800 MB
of data, that works out to between 50 minutes and 4 hours.  Not surprising
that your archive hasn't completed in 12 minutes...

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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