I recently had occasion to restore a 700 kB file from several archives. The file was retrieved within seconds, but tarsnap continued to hold open a connection to something in Amazon EC2 (I assume the tarsnap service) for 8 to 9 minutes. What is it doing, and how can it be made faster, besides killing the process once I see the file is retrieved?
This is the command I ran, multiple times: sudo time tarsnap -C tmp/recover/$DATE -x -f $ARCHIVE home/timmc/.bash_history I'm running tarsnap version 1.0.36.1 on Debian Linux 8. - Tim McCormack
