Re: Getting started with Tarsnap

[John Gamble <jg5@sanger.ac.uk>]

Hi Colin,

Thanks for confirming that.

Regards,

John

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On 13 Feb 2014, at 11:50, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:

On 02/12/14 12:15, David Williams wrote:

I don't recall for sure, but it's entirely likely that the cache
directory/files is not created until the first time you perform a
backup.  It is a cache, after all, and there probably isn't anything
useful to put in there until tarsnap has done something.

Yes, tarsnap will create the cache directory automatically if it doesn't
already exist.

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