Re: Feature request: command-line report of account status

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 10/08/13 16:12, ed wrote:
> I would love to have a command-line app that outputs the same information that I
> can get from the Tarsnap Account Management Interface on the webpage.  Perhaps a
> default output of my current account balance with options to output Recent
> Account Activity, Recent Activity for an Individual Machine, etc.

Have you tried wget? ;-)

> I run a daily script that backs up my server, builds a logfile of the process,
> and then emails me the logfile.  I include a listing of all archives currently
> in storage.  I keep wishing that I could add my current account status so that I
> could know when I need to add funds.
> 
> I realize that this may not be trivial, as the account information may not be
> available through tarsnap key authentication.  I'm hoping that I'm wrong and
> that it'll be relatively simple either to add a command-line option to tarsnap
> or to create a separate small binary.

You're correct that the keys held by an individual machine are not sufficient
to view *account* information, since they're specific to that one machine.  If
someone manages to steal the keys for one machine you probably wouldn't want
them to be able to get a list of all your other machines and how much data they
have stored anyway.

I know there are tarsnap users who are using wget or curl to download the "CSV"
formatted account data from the tarsnap website and then feed that into scripts;
right now this is the only supported way to automate this process.

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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