Hi, I think those few bytes are the metadata that Tarsnap store about the archive itself. I guess that nothing got backuped up but the metadata.
You should check the read and list permissions. -- Mauro Ciancio On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Sven Richter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to backup something and get this log message: > > tarsnap: Removing leading '/' from member names > tarsnap: /postgres: Couldn't visit directory: Permission denied > Total size Compressed size > All archives 7661631169 5593218938 > (unique data) 5051231842 3768611408 > This archive 2006 1425 > New data 2006 1425 > tarsnap: Error exit delayed from previous errors. > > > I wonder what this exactly means. I would assume it cannot read the > folder and therefore does not backup anything, however, it seems like > it does do a backup of some data. But of which? How do I check > everything works or works not as expected. > This is a bit confusing. > > Best Regards, > Sven >
