Re: sequence number mismatch

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 06/03/11 01:40, Michael Stevens wrote:
> What's meant to happen in the "oh dear, my PC blew up, need to restore"
> case?
> 
> It seems like it'd be natural to try to use the key on a machine with an
> existing tarsnap install to retrieve the files, only that's actually
> going to corrupt your cache.

The cache is only used for creating and deleting archives -- you can extract
and list archives with just the keys.

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Colin Percival
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