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[Clive Cox <clive.cox@rummble.com>]

Hi,

 Apologies if this has been discussed already but I couldn't find the
mailing-list archive and have just joined.

 I would vote for faster tarsnap restores. We've had to use tarsnap
restore for real when a machine corrupted its RAID. We started a restore
of the system and it looked like it would take at least a week to get it
all restored (the initial backup a few months before took an hour or so
to push to tarsnap) - the machine was in a data centre with fast network
access, BTW. In the end, our server expert was able to fix the discs by
hand so we could reboot the machine, so the restores weren't needed!
(public thanks to Chris Webb at Arachsys/Elastichosts)

If anyone has any best practices I would be grateful to hear, e.g. do
several backups of logical parts of the system and then 1 full system
backup (as I understand it that would take no more space on tarsnap due
to not storing duplicate blocks and might ease logical restores of parts
of the system?).

Thanks,

 Clive