Hello list, I'm considering using tarsnap for the many machines I manage. I have a few questions not answered in the FAQ:
1. if backups happen 2-hourly and the backup/tarsnap client has been running say 3 days, is it possible to select/restore from backup taken say at the 10th hr on the 2nd day? 2. if a directory has soft symlinks, will the backup traverse the symlink? or do I need the backup to look at the full real path? For example, a user has an sftp-only account chrooted to his homedir and there's a link from there going to a place on a webserver they have rw access to. Is it sufficient to back up only the homedir, or do I have to back up the full web path, or does it matter? 3. like I mentioned, there's many machines to run backups for. Can I do them all under the one account? thank you for any clarification here --
