On 10/08/13 16:12, ed wrote: > I would love to have a command-line app that outputs the same information > that I > can get from the Tarsnap Account Management Interface on the webpage. > Perhaps a > default output of my current account balance with options to output Recent > Account Activity, Recent Activity for an Individual Machine, etc.
Have you tried wget? ;-) > I run a daily script that backs up my server, builds a logfile of the process, > and then emails me the logfile. I include a listing of all archives currently > in storage. I keep wishing that I could add my current account status so > that I > could know when I need to add funds. > > I realize that this may not be trivial, as the account information may not be > available through tarsnap key authentication. I'm hoping that I'm wrong and > that it'll be relatively simple either to add a command-line option to tarsnap > or to create a separate small binary. You're correct that the keys held by an individual machine are not sufficient to view *account* information, since they're specific to that one machine. If someone manages to steal the keys for one machine you probably wouldn't want them to be able to get a list of all your other machines and how much data they have stored anyway. I know there are tarsnap users who are using wget or curl to download the "CSV" formatted account data from the tarsnap website and then feed that into scripts; right now this is the only supported way to automate this process. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
