### Recommended options # Tarsnap cache directory cachedir /root/.tarsnap-cache # Tarsnap key file keyfile /root/.tarsnap.key # Don't archive files which have the nodump flag set nodump # Print statistics when creating or deleting archives print-stats # Create a checkpoint once per GB of uploaded data. checkpoint-bytes 1G ### Other options, not applicable to most systems # Aggressive network behaviour: Use multiple TCP connections when # writing archives. Use of this option is recommended only in # cases where TCP congestion control is known to be the limiting # factor in upload performance. #aggressive-networking # Exclude files and directories matching specified patterns #exclude # Include only files and directories matching specified patterns #include # Attempt to reduce tarsnap memory consumption. This option # will slow down the process of creating archives, but may help # on systems where the average size of files being backed up is # less than 1 MB. #lowmem # Try even harder to reduce tarsnap memory consumption. This can # significantly slow down tarsnap, but reduces its memory usage # by an additional factor of 2 beyond what the lowmem option does. #verylowmem # Snapshot time. Use this option if you are backing up files # from a filesystem snapshot rather than from a "live" filesystem. #snaptime humanize-numbers