Re: Changing servers

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 11/18/14 05:39, Arthur Chance wrote:
> I'm in the process of switching from an ancient and venerable fileserver to a
> more modern, larger one. Given that most of the file systems contents will
> simply be migrated from one to the other (via zfs send/recv), am I correct in
> assuming I can simply transfer the tarsnap key and cache from the old server
> to the new and tarsnap will just keep working without suddenly doubling the
> size of my archives?

Correct.  Tarsnap doesn't care about physical hardware, only the data (and
keys and cache directory) that it is given to work with.

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Colin Percival
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