Re: tarsnap.conf & ^Q

[Tim Bishop <tim@bishnet.net>]

For tarsnap.conf, where did you install tarsnap? Is it possible it's
looking for /etc/tarsnap.conf instead? I'm not sure how to get tarsnap
to tell you which config file it's built for, short of using strings and
grep on the binary...

And ^Q appears to be working exactly as I'd expect. ^Q, as I understand
it, tells it to checkpoint before exiting. So this would leave a partial
archive with a .part name. You then need to create the next archive with
a new name. If this is documented differently somewhere I'd like to see
it so I can educate myself :-)

Tim.

On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 07:11:25PM +0000, tarsnap wrote:
> I have to add to point 2, that this truncation is always followed by
> another error:
> 
> tarsnap: Archive truncated
> tarsnap: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
> 
> maybe that's just the cause of the errors that I get by reinstating the
> command?
> 
> tarsnap: An archive already exists with the name <filename>.part"
> tarsnap: Error creating new archive
> 
> thanks
> 
> On Sun, 6 Apr 2014 16:42:30 +0000
> tarsnap <tarsnap@infopower.nl> wrote:
> 
> > I have 2 issues remaining that keep puzzling me, maybe someone can
> > point out what I'm doing wrong?
> > 
> > 1. If I make a backup
> > ( sudo tarsnap -cpf <archive-name> <file-to-backup> ) it doesn't find
> > the file /usr/local/etc/tarsnap.conf without being directed to it
> > through the --configfile option.
> > 
> > 2. Terminating a running backup through ^Q, seeing it finish cleanly,
> > and then repeating the same backup command later, gives me a 
> > <quote>
> > An archive already exists with the
> > name "<archive-name>.part"
> > tarsnap: Error creating new archive
> > </quote>
> > Which surprises me, because it's documented as being supposed not to
> > do this.
> > 
> > Any hints?
> > Thanks

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