1### Recommended options
2
3# Tarsnap cache directory
4cachedir /usr/local/tarsnap-cache
5
6# Tarsnap key file
7keyfile /root/tarsnap.key
8
9# Don't archive files which have the nodump flag set.
10nodump
11
12# Print statistics when creating or deleting archives.
13print-stats
14
15# Create a checkpoint once per GB of uploaded data.
16checkpoint-bytes 1G
17
18### Commonly useful options
19
20# Use SI prefixes to make numbers printed by --print-stats more readable.
21#humanize-numbers
22
23### Other options, not applicable to most systems
24
25# Aggressive network behaviour: Use multiple TCP connections when
26# writing archives.  Use of this option is recommended only in
27# cases where TCP congestion control is known to be the limiting
28# factor in upload performance.
29#aggressive-networking
30
31# Exclude files and directories matching specified patterns.
32# Only one file or directory per command; multiple "exclude"
33# commands may be given.
34#exclude
35
36# Include only files and directories matching specified patterns.
37# Only one file or directory per command; multiple "include"
38# commands may be given.
39#include
40
41# Attempt to reduce tarsnap memory consumption.  This option
42# will slow down the process of creating archives, but may help
43# on systems where the average size of files being backed up is
44# less than 1 MB.
45#lowmem
46
47# Try even harder to reduce tarsnap memory consumption.  This can
48# significantly slow down tarsnap, but reduces its memory usage
49# by an additional factor of 2 beyond what the lowmem option does.
50#verylowmem
51
52# Snapshot time.  Use this option if you are backing up files
53# from a filesystem snapshot rather than from a "live" filesystem.
54#snaptime <file>
55