Re: Removing a deleted folder path from tarsnap backup list/urls (GUI)

[Graham Percival <gperciva@tarsnap.com>]

I can't think of any reason why editing the tarsnap.db in that manner
wouldn't work.  It should really be implemented in the GUI, but since it
currently isn't, I think your options are manually editing the database,
or removing the job and making a new one.

Both options are very user-unfriendly, though.


As for the gui in general, there have been 1960 commits since v1.0.2.
And the tarsnap 1.0.41 release on 2025-March-21 added a few features
which are described in the release notes as "This option is in tended
for the GUI and is not needed for command-line usage".

Disclaimer: I'm the person making those commits (both in the gui and the
command-line app), but I'm not at liberty to discuss unreleased
software.  The above info comes from the public github repository and
the tarsnap website.

Cheers,
- Graham

On 2025-06-18, creed-january-twig@duck.com wrote:
> I use Tarsnap GUI. I have deleted a folder on my computer and I would like to delete the path from tarsnap backup command that gets triggered every time a backup is attempted as it always (rightly) logs an error. 
> Since I can’t unselect that deleted path in the UI, can I go ahead and edit the tarsnap.db and remove that path from the “jobs” table’s “urls” column’s only row?
> Or am I supposed to do something else to achieve this?
> 
> (Just curious: https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap-gui/releases seems to have had its last release almost 7 years ago. Is that because it doesn't need any fixes as of now, or has the GUI project been abandoned?)