Realised I did not answer your questions -- I am running this from a cloud server on DigitalOcean's network. A similar server on DO's network functions without issue. Networking-wise there are two adapters, eth0 and eth1, which connects to the internal network. This might've been added after tarsnap was set up... Perhaps that could be significant?
# ls -l .tarsnap-cache total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 21 12:26 lockf # ls -ld .tarsnap-cache drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 12:26 .tarsnap-cache On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 3:41 PM Julian Lam <jul...@nodebb.org> wrote: > Hi Graham/Colin -- I did see that page before and ran through the items. > No problems pinging or connecting via telnet, and a different server > configured the same way (at roughly the same time, give or take a couple > days) connects just fine. Thought maybe ufw was getting in the way, so I > punched a hole for requests to tarsnap's IP (no effect), and disabled it > outright (also no effect). > > I'm seeing no obvious permission errors (I'm actually running as root), > and I had also tried defining a new cache directory, which also didn't make > any difference. > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 2:35 PM Colin Percival <cperc...@tarsnap.com> > wrote: > >> In addition to Graham's comments about debugging the network... >> >> On 4/4/19 7:20 PM, Julian Lam wrote: >> > Seems I'm running out of money on my account, so I wanted to go ahead >> and nuke >> > what I had, except I'm unable to at this time: >> > >> > /usr/bin/tarsnap --key tarsnap.key --cachedir .tarsnap-cache --fsck >> >> If you want to nuke *all* of your archives, you don't need to run --fsck. >> You only need to have a synchronized cache directory for creating new >> archives or deleting *individual* archives (since that's how tarsnap >> figures out which blocks are no longer needed -- not an issue if you ask >> to delete everything). >> >> -- >> Colin Percival >> Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve >> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly >> paranoid >> >
