[tahoe-dev] Robocopy

[Greg Troxel]

Jim Dorrington <jdorrington at compuguide.info> writes:

> Thanks for the pointer to the tahoe backup command Greg.
>
> I created an alias called 'Backupstuff' and reworked it thus:
>
> tahoe backup K:\mytestdata Backupstuff:backups
>
> where mytestdata contained 25MB of data. The backup took 18 minutes
> 49 files uploaded (0 reused), 0 files skipped, 12 directories created (0
> reused), 0 directories skipped
>
> Repeating the backup immediately afterwards took only 8 seconds
> 0 files uploaded (49 reused), 0 files skipped, 0 directories created (12
> reused), 0 directories skipped
>
> This is just what I wanted to achieve thanks for the help.


You forgot the step where you created a second machine from bare metal
and used the backed-up caps on paper along with the introducer cap and
verified that you could get the bits back...
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