Re: How is the cache directory supposed to be setup?

[Chris Brooks <csbrooks6@gmail.com>]

Ok, so is the normal usage to choose one user account per system to be able to use tarsnap with a given tarsnap account? I'm thinking I don't want to use "root" for this (doesn't seem safe).

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:

On 07/15/13 07:58, Chris Brooks wrote:
> I've created a cache directory in the default /usr/local/tarsnap-cache location,
> but I'm getting the "can't sanitize permissions" error message.
>
> Looking at the tarsnap source, it looks like tarsnap is trying to set the
> permissions such that only the owner can use this directory. (Right?) Since the
> user I'm logged in as isn't the owner of this directory, that isn't working for me.
>
> What is the expectation for how the cache directory will be setup? Should I
> create a cache directory in my home directory and use that instead? But what
> happens if I want to use tarsnap under a different username later? (For instance
> from a cron job.) Does each user need it's own cache directory?

You need one cache directory per tarsnap key file.  Usually this means one cache
directory per system, since most people only have one tarsnap key file which is
used for all the backups from a particular box.

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