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Re: Not sure if the backup failed or is still progressing
--As of May 30, 2013 4:36:32 PM -0500, Ronak Patel is alleged to have said:
Currently my command looks like this:
tarsnap -c --keyfile /root/tarsnap.key --cachedir
/usr/local/tarsnap-cache -f rkpat20130530 --exclude
/home/rkpatel7/.gvfs /home/rkpatel7
I'm running tarsnap as root in order to be able to access the key file
and the cache directory. However, upon executing this command I simply
receive this message:
tarsnap: Removing leading '/' from member names
proceeded by a blank line.
I cannot tell if this means that the backup has begun or if something
is wrong with my command that is preventing tarsnap from following the
command. Any help would be appreciated. If I have forgotten to mention
anything, please let me know. I am running Xubuntu 12.04.
--As for the rest, it is mine.
That should be everything. As long as the shell hasn't returned, it should
still be running. `top` or `iostat` should be able to help confirm that
it's active. Tarsnap usually runs fairly quietly unless something happens.
Expect to see a summary report when it's done, but that's it. Inital
archive creation - especially over slow uplinks - can take ages. (I had
one take over a month: Residential connection, with a large dataset.)
Future updates don't take as long.
If you want more info, you can cancel that command and add a -v in there to
get it to list what it's doing as it's doing it. The good news is that it
won't even have to resend the data it's already sent when you restart.
(The bad news is that it will take a bit of it sitting at that same line
above for it to figure out what it can skip, but not as long as just
waiting for it to complete might take if you have some huge dataset.)
Daniel T. Staal
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