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List:       tarsnap-users
Subject:    Re: moving to a new machine
From:       Colin Percival <cperciva () tarsnap ! com>
Date:       2011-11-08 4:33:04
Message-ID: 4EB8B100.6050805 () tarsnap ! com
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On 11/07/11 17:36, Jason Helfman wrote:
> Does the cache need to be moved as well?

Yes, assuming you want to create or delete more archives.

Or you could run --fsck, but that chews up bandwidth and copying the cache
directory across is almost certainly going to be faster.

> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
>> On 11/07/11 15:56, Jason Helfman wrote:
>>> I am moving from one desktop to another, and no longer wish to backup
>>> my old desktop. What is required to move my backups from a client
>>> point-of-view to my new machine?
>>
>> Move the key file across?  It doesn't matter which physical box is using a
>> particular set of keys.

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Colin Percival
Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve
Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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