Hi Justin,

Have you created an archive since the failure? I believe the .part
archives only appear when you next create an archive, or when you use
--recover.

Tim.

On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 02:18:10PM -0500, Justin H Haynes wrote:
> Good afternoon.  I have added a new machine to my Tarsnap account and I 
> started its first backup this week.  It was a big backup for me, because it 
> was my entire NAS minus virtual machines and easily downloadable public 
> files. My plan is to centralized backups to my NAS, then backup the NAS.
> 
> I ran into a problem after I ran out of funds in my account, and the backup 
> stopped.  I find no .part file with which a backup can resume.  As it had 
> been baking up for 3-4 days at the time, I’d like to avoid starting over, and 
> of course I’d like for the bandwidth charges not to be a loss.  No one has 
> physical access to the machine, and I find no evidence of tampering.
> 
> Did I lose my backup in progress, or can I continue the backup and know that 
> the first archive will appear without having to re-upload all the files?
> 
> On 8/28/2018, going by the times from the Accounts -> Manage Account -> 
> Recent Activity Summary at https://www.tarsnap.com, I started backing up my 
> NAS using a FreeBSD BHYVE machine on a FreeBSD host.  The FreeBSD BHYVE, 
> let’s call it the "backup server” is pulling archives from /mnt/DiskStation 
> under which there are folders, one per remote share mounted by CIFS.  
> 
> I have lost my command history, but the command was probably something like 
> the following running as a non privileged user.  The machine is dedicated to 
> only backing up the NAS in various ways, so having an unprivileged user for 
> this task seems reasonable.  The non-priv user is ‘justin'
> 
> tarsnap -c -f 20180828-mnt-DiskStation /mnt/DiskStation
> 
> Here is my .tarsnaprc with all lines included and only comments corresponding 
> to uncommitted lines stripped out:
> 
> # Tarsnap cache directory
> cachedir /home/justin/tarsnap-cache
> 
> # Tarsnap key file
> keyfile /home/justin/tarsnap.DiskStation.key
> 
> # Don't archive files which have the nodump flag set.
> nodump
> 
> # Print statistics when creating or deleting archives.
> print-stats
> 
> # Create a checkpoint once per GB of uploaded data.
> checkpoint-bytes 1G
> 
> ### Commonly useful options
> 
> # Use SI prefixes to make numbers printed by --print-stats more readable.
> humanize-numbers
> 
> # Include only files and directories matching specified patterns.
> # Only one file or directory per command; multiple "include"
> # commands may be given.
> include /mnt/DiskStation
> 
> Tarsnap was installed from pkg:
> 
> $ echo $PATH
> /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/justin/bin
> $ pkg which /usr/local/bin/tarsnap                                            
>                                                                               
>                                               
> /usr/local/bin/tarsnap was installed by package tarsnap-1.0.39
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD fluffy 11.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE #0 r321309: Fri Jul 21 
> 02:08:28 UTC 2017     
> [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> $ df -h 
> Filesystem                        Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/vtbd0p2                      9.0G    3.5G    4.8G    42%    /
> devfs                             1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
> //ADMIN@DISKSTATION/TESTFOLDER     11T    2.3T    8.5T    21%    
> /mnt/DiskStation/testfolder
> //ADMIN@DISKSTATION/MUSIC          11T    2.3T    8.5T    21%    
> /mnt/DiskStation/music
> //ADMIN@DISKSTATION/SCANNERS       11T    2.3T    8.5T    21%    
> /mnt/DiskStation/scanners
> 
> The folders mounted do not consume 2.3T.  It is closer to 300GB.
> 
> The backup continued for 3-4 days, at which time, having exhausted my funds 
> in the account and then some.  The Tarsnap client stopped adding to the first 
> archive for this NAS as documented in 
> https://www.tarsnap.com/faq.html#out-of-money 
> <https://www.tarsnap.com/faq.html#out-of-money> .
> 
> The account had just under -7 dollars.  
> 
> Today, I added 100 to the account so that the balance would be over 92 
> dollars.  The last daily storage charge was for 184245293378 bytes (just 
> under 184 GB) of storage.  Based on my .tarsnaprc file which has 
> "checkpoint-bytes 1G” defined, I would expect to find a .part file totaling 
> 183GB.  However, I don’t find anything when I run the following command:
> 
> $ pwd
> /usr/home/justin
> $ id
> uid=1001(justin) gid=1001(justin) groups=1001(justin),0(wheel)
> $ tarsnap -vv --list-archives

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