Skimming docs at https://shinnok.com/rants/2016/02/19/using-tarsnap-gui-on-os-x/ , you might have fallen through the cracks of their UI support. I'm more familiar with the command-line interface than the third-party GUI that runs on top of it.
For the CLI, I would setup the config and run tarsnap --fsck to update the workstation state from the backups. I think you can then set the GUI to use the config and cache folders that the CLI uses. The tarsnap.db you mentioned is only for the GUI app configuration; I don't know how much or how well that will carry over from your work workstation to your personal workstation. -James Sent from my iPad > On Apr 9, 2021, at 10:22 PM, Amar via tarsnap-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I thought it’d be straightforward but I am stuck. I am sure I am doing > something wrong I just don’t know what. > > I have to return my work laptop today and that’s where I had setup > Tarsnap-GUI and have been using. > > I have saved the key file, I also have the tarsnap.db file. I of course have > the tarsnap.com a/c password. > I will have same sets of data on my new laptop as well (I have already > migrated local/laptop data to new one). > > I want to just start backing up to the same remote with deduplication (from > previously backed up data from previous laptop and all that) and all that. > > I had installed via “brew install tarsnap-gui” and it installed tarsnap > 1.0.39_1 (I didn’t install tarsnap separately) > > When I run setup wizard it tries to verify archive integrity just based on > the key, without even asking for my password. So I guess that should be fine > as my key was generated > with my email and a/c password. But can I just use it on new machine? There’s > nothing there yet - not even my jobs, or config yet? > > So on 3rd step of setup wizard it’s perpetually stuck on “Verifying archive > integrity”. > The Config directory (from step 2) is empty which makes sense as I have not > imported or added any jobs etc. Should I copy paste tarsnap.db from previous > machine (in App Data Directory). > > Is there something I am missing?
