Re: Tarsnap is here to stay.

2014-03-09 Thread Colin Percival
On 03/09/14 17:58, Tim Anderson wrote: > On 10/03/14 10:08, Colin Percival wrote: >> The answer is that if I get hit by a bus tomorrow, Tarsnap will probably not >> survive indefinitely without me. That said, the service is very stable on a >> day-to-day basis, so if anything happens to me it is v

Re: Tarsnap is here to stay.

2014-03-09 Thread Tim Anderson
On 10/03/14 10:08, Colin Percival wrote: On 03/09/14 03:46, Arthur Chance wrote: Without wishing to be morbid, I presume you have structures and procedures in place to ensure Tarsnap Backup Inc continues to offer its services indefinitely in case you're kidnapped by aliens or eaten by bears(*)?

Re: Tarsnap is here to stay.

2014-03-09 Thread Royce Williams
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Colin Percival wrote: > > I hereby pledge to do everything in my power to avoid being abducted by > aliens, > eaten by bears, or hit by buses. We need someone with graphic-novel skillz to illustrate the confluence of these three threats, with Colin fending them a

Re: Tarsnap is here to stay.

2014-03-09 Thread Colin Percival
On 03/09/14 03:46, Arthur Chance wrote: > Without wishing to be morbid, I presume you have structures and procedures in > place to ensure Tarsnap Backup Inc continues to offer its services > indefinitely > in case you're kidnapped by aliens or eaten by bears(*)? That's a sensible question, althou

(solved) Re: About network failures while uploading

2014-03-09 Thread tarsnap
On Sun, 9 Mar 2014 16:22:57 + Colin Percival wrote: > On 03/09/14 09:21, tarsnap wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Mar 2014 15:36:28 + > > Colin Percival wrote: > > > >> On 03/09/14 06:57, tarsnap wrote: > >>> I'm afraid something went wrong, any idea what it is? > >>> > >>> [user@fedora-18-x64-use

Re: Tarsnap is here to stay.

2014-03-09 Thread Michael Sierchio
I was actually thinking the same thing - you know, succession plan, operational continuity, code escrow, etc. etc. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 3:46 AM, Arthur Chance wrote: > Without wishing to be morbid, I presume you have structures and procedures > in place to ensure Tarsnap Backup Inc continues to

Re: About network failures while uploading

2014-03-09 Thread Colin Percival
On 03/09/14 06:57, tarsnap wrote: > I'm afraid something went wrong, any idea what it is? > > [user@fedora-18-x64-use netpacket]$ patch netpacket_op.c < > tarsnap_retryforever.patch ^^^ this command line should have been just $ patch < tarsnap_retryforever.patch since the patch modifies several

Re: About network failures while uploading

2014-03-09 Thread tarsnap
On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 16:06:15 + Colin Percival wrote: > On 03/08/14 07:24, tarsnap wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 14:41:50 + > > Colin Percival wrote: > >> I'd recommend using the --checkpoint-bytes option with a fairly low > >> setting (e.g., --checkpoint-bytes 32M) so that you'll have lot

Re: About network failures while uploading

2014-03-09 Thread tarsnap
On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 14:56:29 -0800 Colin Percival wrote: > On 03/08/14 14:51, tarsnap wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 16:06:15 + > > Colin Percival wrote: > >> You can try creating an archive with the same name as you used > >> before. If it fails, that means the previous archive got created

Re: .exclude file or similar?

2014-03-09 Thread Gabriel Kerneis
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 08:13:47PM +, Luís Avelino Relógio wrote: > One could capture the .exclude files prior to the execution of tarsnap and > generate a -X exclude.file find / -name .exclude -execdir xargs -a {} readlink -m \; > exclude.file Best, -- Gabriel

Tarsnap is here to stay.

2014-03-09 Thread Arthur Chance
Without wishing to be morbid, I presume you have structures and procedures in place to ensure Tarsnap Backup Inc continues to offer its services indefinitely in case you're kidnapped by aliens or eaten by bears(*)? The web site says very little about the corporate side of tarsnap and as I'm alw