Re: tarsnap.conf & ^Q

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 04/06/14 09:42, tarsnap 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.

That's odd.  What OS are you running and how did you install Tarsnap?  It
may be that tarsnap is looking in a different directory.

> 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.

This looks correct to me.  The first archive was truncated thanks to you
hitting ^Q, so it had .part added to its name.

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Colin Percival
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