Re: New data reported too big

[Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>]

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
> On 10/06/13 14:26, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
>>> Tarsnap stores a 512-byte tar header for each file, and this header
>>> includes the file modification time. 22,000 files x 512 bytes/file = 11.2
>>> MB, so this looks like the reason for the new data you're seeing.
>>
>> Aha!  Is there an easy way to turn that off?  I archive a fair amount
>> of autogenerated data, and the timestamps are completely worthless as
>> far as I'm concerned.
>
> No way to turn it off.  The best I can suggest is to compare your old and
> new autogenerated data and only install the new data if it's different.
>

Yuck.  Can I request this as a feature for the next release
(--no-cmtime or something like that)?

--Andy

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> Colin Percival
> Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid



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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC