On 08/15/14 09:21, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote: > Ok--I was under the impression it needed temp space to create the backup > before > it deduplicated and uploaded to the server.
No, the archive is streamed up to the server as it is created. > So I need somewhere semi-permanent to store the backups locally in addition to > storing them on the tarsnap server? The cache directory is ~ 0.5% of the size of the data you store, and contains metadata like block reference counts. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
