On 10/06/13 14:26, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Colin Percival <[email protected]> wrote: >> Tarsnap stores a 512-byte tar header for each file, and this header >> includes the file modification time. 22,000 files x 512 bytes/file = 11.2 >> MB, so this looks like the reason for the new data you're seeing. > > Aha! Is there an easy way to turn that off? I archive a fair amount > of autogenerated data, and the timestamps are completely worthless as > far as I'm concerned.
No way to turn it off. The best I can suggest is to compare your old and new autogenerated data and only install the new data if it's different. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
