On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 22:25:38 +0000, Colin Percival wrote: > How long does it drop for?
For the most part it drops only momentarily. I only notice because a SSH connection is lost, or my VPN disconnects and immediately re-connects. It's as if a bird flew in front of the antenna's line-of-sight. > network outages of under 5 minutes shouldn't be a > problem at all. If you use the --retry-forever option, it will do what you > expect, too. Fabulous! That makes this situation much more reasonable. >> How would recoveries work, with so many archives? Let's say I discovered my >> MacBook was compromised a week ago, and I want to do a full system >> restoration to the state of the files uploaded 8 days ago. Would it be as >> simple as running extract on the last archive with the timestamp of "8 days >> ago", i.e., `tarsnap -x -f backup-YYYYMMDD.SSSSSSSSSSS /`, with the most >> complete and consistent archive found by running something like `tarsnap >> --list-archives | grep YYYYMMDD | sort | tail -1`? > > I'd go with something like `tarsnap --list-archives | fgrep -v .part > | sort | > tail -1` to get your most recent full archive. But I didn't mean the "most recent"; I meant "the full archive older than 7 days ago" (in this hypothetical scenario, let's assume I know that I was infected with malware 6.5 days ago and don't trust any backups after that day). Quinn
