Re: Question about backuping multiply dirs

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 10/30/11 15:57, Amar Cosic wrote:
> root@lemon:/etc# tarsnap --list-archives
> test.london
> mybackup

Try
# tarsnap --list-archives -vv

That will show what command line was used to create each archive.

> now there is 'mybackup' while it should be backup-%date right?

If I'm reading your cron line correctly, yes.

> tarsnap -tv -f mybackup |grep '/var'

As Max pointed out, this should be "grep 'var'" since the leading / is removed.

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