> On 27 Aug 2025, at 5:55 AM, Colin Percival
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> If you have the latest version of tarsnap, this should have printed a warning
> message along the lines of
>
> > tarsnap: List of objects to archive includes '--dry-run'. This might not
> > be what you intended.
I am using: tarsnap 1.0.41
>
> Once tarsnap sees a non-flag on the command line, everything else is treated
> as a non-flag. So that's why this wasn't a dry run.
Got it. So basically whatever tarsnap examples are there in the docs if
there’s a flag in the example all the flags in the command should start
right there and exhaust one by one (if I am passing more than that’s given
in that example) and then rest of the args/fields of the commands should
be passed after that.
> That makes sense, data was copied into a new archive so it's no longer unique
> to that archive.
>
>> - new-prefix_test: its list of files is much smaller than the source archive.
>> But when I compared the file list they match exactly until new-prefix_test
>> file ended.
>> As you see there is no ".part" in its name.
>> new-prefix_test 36 MB 15 MB
>> (unique data) 205 kB 37 kB
>
> That's very strange. Is there anything interesting about the next file in the
> old archive after the new archive stopped? I'm wondering if somehow tarsnap
> failed in the middle of copying the archive... if that happened you should
> have seen an error message though.
Internet disconnection definitely had happened. Also, the next file was
just a file like it the last one copied - another .git/objects folder file.
What I am wondering is why there was no .part in the name of the archive.
>> Also: tarsnap-gui appends "Job_" as "Job_{job name}_{timestamp}" to every
>> archive name. Can I choose not to add that "Job_" or decide on my own how to
>> name the archive while still using the GUI?
>
> I think the GUI lets you enter your own archive names when creating a single
> archive, yes
I meant to ask if I want to schedule/automate the backup via GUI then I
assume GUI just take the job name I have given and prefixes “Job_” to it
and adds a timestamp suffix and creates the archive. I meant can I choose
not to add that “Job_” to it? Might be a good GUI option really.
I will try the commands again and see how it goes. Thanks.
