At several points I confess to have deleted files from the cache, to attempt to start-from-scratch, but I've restored it now, using the --fsck option.
Administrator@ab-1 /usr/local/tarsnap-cache $ whoami Administrator Administrator@ab-1 /usr/local/tarsnap-cache $ ls -l total 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator None 64 Jul 23 07:09 cseq -> d69979bf2f84c1ace96e5dcbb137ce25987dc18d493b4f559d960bba2999a55e -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator None 24 Jul 23 07:09 directory -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator None 0 Jul 22 11:51 lockf Also, at one point a couple of days ago, I suspected network issues and, so, created explicit outbound rules to allow connection to port 9279 on the internal firewall (Windows Server) and the external firewall (Alibaba Cloud). I then tested the ability to get outside by setting up netcat listening on port 9279 on an external server and connecting to that from the Windows machine. I rebooted the Windows machine after making the firewall changes. It did seem that some kind of connection had been made to a Tarsnap server, but in my quest for A-Z satisfaction I deleted whatever bits were there using tarsnap -d and also, later, tarsnap --nuke. I will look more closely at the Alibaba Cloud firewall, and yes, I can try an older version of tarsnap. Paul ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On July 23, 2018 12:18 AM, Colin Percival <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 07/22/18 01:05, Paul Takemura wrote: > > > tarsnap-keygen seems to work fine too (exit code is 0). > > > > Unfortunately, tarsnap seems to hang when using the -c option. I see that > > data > > > > has been written to the cache directory, but that may only be the metadata, > > I > > > > don't know. > > Can you show me a listing of that directory? > > > Does anyone have experience using tarsnap on Windows Server R2 and Cygwin? > > > > Here is an example invocation of tarsnap that hangs: > > > > Administrator@ab-1 ~ > > > > $ tarsnap -c --dry-run -v -C /home/Administrator/ -f ab-1-1807221600 > > paultemp > > Interesting. Can you try an earlier version of tarsnap in case we broke > > something? > > The most common cause for "tarsnap-keygen works but tarsnap doesn't" is > > network MTU issues -- but that (a) shouldn't be a problem on cloud systems, > > and (b) should eventually produce errors with tarsnap can't communicate with > > the server. Simply hanging is not a symptom I've heard about before. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Colin Percival > > Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve > > Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
