Re: Can I use one account/key for 2 machines?

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 05/07/12 03:04, Amar Cosic wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com
> <mailto:cperciva@tarsnap.com>> wrote:
>     One account for two machines, sure.  You can have as many machines as you want
>     attached to a single tarsnap account.
> 
>     One key for two machines?  Short answer: No.  Long answer: Not without doing a
>     lot of work and causing yourself lots of headaches.
> 
> Okay so on that 2nd machine I should just start from tarsnap-keygen --keyfile
> .... and that should do it ?

Correct.  Each time you run tarsnap-keygen a new set of keys and a new (empty)
archive-storage space are created and attached to your account.

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Colin Percival
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