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.

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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
>

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