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Better tarsnap configuration #55

Open taoeffect opened 9 years ago

taoeffect commented 9 years ago 
keyfile ~/.tarsnap/tarsnap.key
cachedir ~/.tarsnap/cache
exclude ~/.tarsnap/cache
humanize-numbers
print-stats
totals

Having Tarsnap's key and cache directory in separate locations is ugly and confusing. Plus currently the cache directory is world-readable, and that's not good as it contains plaintext filenames.

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taoeffect commented 9 years ago

Also, @al3x or @PiPeep, do either one of you know why tarsnap.sh uses the -L option:

EXTRA_FLAGS="-L -C /"

That tells it to follow links when archiving instead of backing them up as links. Since this is backing up the entire system, that seems like the wrong thing to do... Anything that's pointed to by the link will be backed up, and upon restoration users probably want the link, not the file. So can the -L be removed or is there a reason for it?