Re: Expected deduplication doesn't take place

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 01/20/16 02:04, Igor Ostapenko wrote:
> Colin Percival wrote on 20/01/2016 09:08:
>> On 01/19/16 13:21, Igor Ostapenko wrote:
>>> Colin Percival wrote on 19/01/2016 21:35:
>>>> The unique compressed data is 622 MB in both cases.  Are you sure that
>>>> you didn't delete .test.daily.20160119104958 before you ran tarsnap
>>>> again to create .test.daily.20160119105034 ?
>>>
>>> The second run was invoked right after the first one. There were no
>>> deletion. Actually, write-only key is used in this situation.
>>
>> That's very strange.  Are you sure you weren't doing a dry run?
> 
> Yeah... You're absolutely right, the script who is responsible for daily
> backuping has --dry-run within.

Mystery solved!

> I'm sorry for the hassle.

I'm glad we figured this out now rather than when you find that you
need to restore one of those archives... ;-)

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Colin Percival
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