Better tarsnap usage pattern than I have?

2012-12-04 Thread Jeff Rizzo
I've been using tarsnap for about a year, and I'm pretty happy with it overall. I've been noticing my storage usage (particularly on a couple of systems) creeping up, so I took the time over a couple days (and it did take that long on the higher-usage system) to nuke most of the daily backups

Re: Better tarsnap usage pattern than I have?

2012-12-04 Thread Colin Percival
On 12/04/12 10:05, Jeff Rizzo wrote: Basically, I have a script on each system I'm backing up that runs tarsnap once a day on /, and I flag scratch partitions (etc) with 'nodump', so they don't get backed up. What I'm wondering is if there's an easier/cheaper way to remove specific data