Re: Queries resulting from first use of Tarsnap

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 04/05/14 06:08, jg5 wrote:
> Thanks for your reply and for clarifying that error message about my internet
> connection.  I wondered if it had been something like that, but wanted to check
> anyway.
> 
> The 'print-stats' option is enabled (or at least it's not commented out) in my
> 'tarsnap.conf' file.  Are you saying that I also have to specify this option on
> the command line when I run tarsnap?

No, having it in the config file is fine.  That option has effect when tarsnap
exits cleanly, so using ^C to kill tarsnap was preventing it.

> Thanks for the info about stopping the archive running.  I'd been using ^C,but
> will use ^Q from now on.
> 
> Will use -v as an option also - thanks for that.

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Colin Percival
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