some new user questions

[void <void@f-m.fm>]

Hello list,

I'm considering using tarsnap for the many machines I manage. I have a few questions not answered in the FAQ:

1. if backups happen 2-hourly and the backup/tarsnap client has been running say 3 days, is it possible to select/restore from backup taken say at the 10th hr on the 2nd day?

2. if a directory has soft symlinks, will the backup traverse the symlink?
or do I need the backup to look at the full real path?

For example, a user has an sftp-only account chrooted to his homedir and there's a link from there going to a place on a webserver they have rw access to. Is it sufficient to back up only the homedir, or do I have to back up the full web path, or does it matter?

3. like I mentioned, there's many machines to run backups for. Can I do them all under the one account? 

thank you for any clarification here
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