Re: Concurrent operation

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 02/02/12 10:30, Gleb Arshinov wrote:
> Is it possible to run 2 tarsnaps in parallel on 2 different archives?
> I am getting when I try this:
> 
>   tarsnap: Transaction already in progress
>   tarsnap: Error creating new archive
> 
> In general what kind of concurrency support/restrictions are there in tarsnap?

You can't run two {create, delete} operations at the same time using the same
cache directory.  (And trying to use the same set of keys with two different
cache directories won't work, of course.)

You can run extract or list in parallel with anything.

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