Re: Concurrent operation

[Gleb Arshinov <gleb.lists@pluron.com>]

Thanks Colin!  If this info it's not already in the man page (I didn't
find it), I think it should be.

Best regards,

Gleb

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
> 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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