Re: Feasability of using tarsnap on crap internet connections

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 11/05/15 14:42, Quinn Comendant wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 22:25:38 +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
>> I'd go with something like `tarsnap --list-archives | fgrep -v .part 
>> | sort |
>> tail -1` to get your most recent full archive.
> 
> But I didn't mean the "most recent"; I meant "the full archive older than 7 days ago" (in this hypothetical scenario, let's assume I know that I was infected with malware 6.5 days ago and don't trust any backups after that day).

Well, ok.  Replace the `tail -1` part with something else then.  My point
was that you want to use `tarsnap --list-archives | fgrep -v .part` to get
a list of full archives and then select from that based on the date you need.

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Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid