Done with: filtered copy (-c -X); deleted @@oldarchive’s; recrypted. Thank you everybody!
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I had some remaining issues/doubts. Would appreciate some more help.
How do you all tarsnap-gui users pass the key passphrase? (For cli 'security find-…/get-…' could be used I guess.)
tarsnap-gui adds prefix "Job_{job name}" to archives created by scheduled backups. Is there any workaround to control this archive naming?
tarsnap-gui doesn't have a "-X/-I file" option (can include in UI though), will the GUI then read these from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tarsnap.conf?:
include /Users/user/some dir include //Users/user/config/settings.json
exclude /Users/user/some dir/dir1 exclude /Users/user/path/file.ext exclude *.log exclude .git/
tarsnap-gui has "Skip operating system junk" defaults as: .DS_Store:.localized:.fseventsd:.Spotlight-V100:._.Trashes:.Trashes". Are these same as putting "exclude .DS_Store", "exclude .localized"… lines in the conf file?
I am also facing the mojibake issue after I restored a folder (non English file names in it). While "convmv" helped (very little), can it be solved at the time of restore/extracting? (context: Never created an archive outside of Mac tarsnap-gui). So how to deal with this?
Cheers. On 27 Aug 2025, at 6:41 AM, Amarendra Kumar <amarendrakumar@icloud.com> wrote:
On 27 Aug 2025, at 5:55 AM, Colin Percival <cperciva_at_tarsnap.com_creed-january-twig@duck.com> wrote:
If you have the latest version of tarsnap, this should have printed a warning
message along the lines of
> tarsnap: List of objects to archive includes '--dry-run'. This might not be what you intended.
I am using: tarsnap 1.0.41
Once tarsnap sees a non-flag on the command line, everything else is treated
as a non-flag. So that's why this wasn't a dry run.
Got it. So basically whatever tarsnap examples are there in the docs if there’s a flag in the example all the flags in the command should start right there and exhaust one by one (if I am passing more than that’s given in that example) and then rest of the args/fields of the commands should be passed after that. That makes sense, data was copied into a new archive so it's no longer unique
to that archive.
- new-prefix_test: its list of files is much smaller than the source archive.
But when I compared the file list they match exactly until new-prefix_test file ended.
As you see there is no ".part" in its name.
new-prefix_test 36 MB 15 MB
(unique data) 205 kB 37 kB
That's very strange. Is there anything interesting about the next file in the
old archive after the new archive stopped? I'm wondering if somehow tarsnap
failed in the middle of copying the archive... if that happened you should
have seen an error message though.
Internet disconnection definitely had happened. Also, the next file was just a file like it the last one copied - another .git/objects folder file.
What I am wondering is why there was no .part in the name of the archive. Also: tarsnap-gui appends "Job_" as "Job_{job name}_{timestamp}" to every
archive name. Can I choose not to add that "Job_" or decide on my own how to
name the archive while still using the GUI?
I think the GUI lets you enter your own archive names when creating a single
archive, yes
I meant to ask if I want to schedule/automate the backup via GUI then I assume GUI just take the job name I have given and prefixes “Job_” to it and adds a timestamp suffix and creates the archive. I meant can I choose not to add that “Job_” to it? Might be a good GUI option really.
I will try the commands again and see how it goes. Thanks.
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