On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Colin Percival <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Yuck. Can I request this as a feature for the next release (--no-cmtime or something like that)? --Andy > -- > Colin Percival > Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve > Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC
