Re: Using tarsnap without cache-dir?

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 04/07/12 04:54, Michael Fincham wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 18:42:25 +1200, Michael Fincham <michael@hotplate.co.nz>
> uttered:
>> Every time I perform an action (like a delete) from this "management" 
>> machine tarsnap complains I need to run fsck e.g.
>> 
>> tarsnap: Sequence number mismatch: Run --fsck tarsnap: Error deleting
>> archive
>> 
>> Is there a better way to achieve what I'm doing?
> 
> Having delved a little deeper in to the mailing list archive it seems like
> this isn't currently a supported mode of operation.

Correct.  There are workarounds, such as running --fsck or copying the
cache directory back and forth, but they are all far from ideal.

> So, unless this has changed recently I think I have answered my own 
> question :)

I'm thinking about ways to make this sort of thing workable, but I don't
have any concrete plans or timelines yet.

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Colin Percival
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