Re: Multiple identical backups with different names

[Bob Eager <rde@tavi.co.uk>]

On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:45:26 +0100
Philipp Riegger <lists@anderedomain.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> is it possible to have multiple (identical) backups with different
> names?
> 
> Currently I have a backup script which creates backups with -daily-,
> -weekly- and -monthly- in the name for every day, week or month
> respectively. At the moment, those are completely different backups
> created at different times from the same data.
> 
> Is it possible to create 2 backups with different names from the same
> data at the same point in time without using snapshots or something
> like this? From my point of view it should be very easy to implement
> this in tarsnap (allow "tarsnap -c -f name1 -f name2 ...").
> 
> At the moment I can only think of something tarsnap-external like
> snapshots (which would be more difficult to implement for me) or
> something like "tarsnap -c -f name2 @@name1", but I think this would
> be quite expensive, is that correct?
> 
> Any other suggestions/ideas?
> 
> Philipp

Sorry, previous reply sent prematurely, before correction and editing!

Use:
 tarsnap -c -f name1 ...
for the first one.

Then:
 tarsnap -c -f name2 @@name1
 tarsnap -c -f name3 @@name1

This is quick and cheap. No substantial upload required. Try it.