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    andrewchambers
    @andrewchambers
    I mainly want to fine tune things and make it perform as fast as possible
    and be very stable
    So we will see what sort of extra features become necessary or not
    I pushed the next release back a few times more than I should have - had a few things to deal with
    so the project looks more dormant than it is
    Sebastien Marie
    @semarie
    one difficulty with posix lock is that to be effective all tools needs to use it too. else you ends with one tool reading/writing file (without using lock) whereas the file is (properly) locked by another tool
    andrewchambers
    @andrewchambers
    yep - though bupstash provides exec-with-locks to help you
    generally programs don't mess around around in the internal file trees of other tools
    Sebastien Marie
    @semarie
    with the query-language, is it possible to get the "latest" entry (from timestamp tag point of vue) ? I am looking to extract (bupstash restore) the latest snapshot (name=backup.tar and ...)
    doing external processing on "bupstash list" output isn't a very good way for me, as I am using BUPSTASH_KEY_COMMAND with explicit password asking, and it means asking password twice (one for "list", another for "restore"), or locally store the key
    andrewchambers
    @andrewchambers
    @semarie sorry for the late reply, was away. I don't think there is another way at the moment.
    I considered adding some post processing to the queries
    like limit 1
    It's definitely something I will consider adding
    andrewchambers
    @andrewchambers
    @semarie another thing is to use something like gpg agent to retain keys in memory for some duration
    tionis
    @tionis:matrix.org
    [m]
    How can I specify a port for ssh repositories?
    andrewchambers
    @andrewchambers
    @tionis:matrix.org I think the normal way should work
    :port
    if not you can go : BUPSTASH_REPOSITORY_COMMAND='ssh opts... bupstash serve /path/to/repository'
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    sogaiu
    @sogaiu:matrix.org
    [m]
    is the ssh url port style supported? e.g. https://serverfault.com/questions/218256/specify-ssh-port-for-git/218408#218408
    1 reply
    tionis
    @tionis:matrix.org
    [m]
    or to be more specific it tries to looks up "host.tld:port" over dns
    andrewchambers
    @andrewchambers
    Ah - @tionis:matrix.org i was mistaken
    it doesn't yet support :PORT
    but the REPOSITORY_COMMAND should certainly work
    I have been thinking of changing it to a true URI
    however then it would require uri escaping for spaces and a few other things
    tionis
    @tionis:matrix.org
    [m]
    Well I'm currently doing something like this:
    BUPSTASH_REPOSITORY_COMMAND="ssh -p 222" bupstash init --repository ssh://host/path/on/host
    andrewchambers
    @andrewchambers
    @tionis:matrix.org that is not what I said to do
    I said to do this
    tionis
    @tionis:matrix.org
    [m]
    Ah I see, sorry, I kinda read over that part
    andrewchambers
    @andrewchambers
    export BUPSTASH_REPOSITORY_COMMAND="ssh -p 222 host bupstash serve /path/on/host"
    then do bupstash init
    tionis
    @tionis:matrix.org
    [m]
    Yes this does seem to work
    andrewchambers
    @andrewchambers
    its quite low level but at least it gives total control of how the io pipes are established
    tionis
    @tionis:matrix.org
    [m]
    ok
    andrewchambers
    @andrewchambers
    I think the ssh:// thing should still be improved to at least include port though
    tionis
    @tionis:matrix.org
    [m]
    that would be great
    thanks for the help!
    andrewchambers
    @andrewchambers
    no problem
    Paul
    @ptman:kapsi.fi
    [m]
    ssh(1) can usually also be configured via ssh_config host-blocks
    snan
    @snan
    Is it possible to have more than one "remote" and switch bewteen them? Maybe one on an SSH and one on a local external disk?
    andrewchambers
    @andrewchambers
    @snan you can just change the -r flag ? Another way is to use the sync command to transfer items between repositories
    snan
    @snan
    Nice. I'm looking forward to getting to know this app. Also I run Debian and am gonna be backing up from it, but my friend's SSH server is on Mac OS using the brew edition of bupstash. Were there any big bugs in the past i.e. is there any particular version number I should be looking out for? I've heard that brew can get a li'l bit old but I don't have a Mac so I don't know
    Also, thanks for the help with -r or with sync
    andrewchambers
    @andrewchambers
    @snan the versions currently need to match most of the time - but there are no serious bugs I am aware of
    tionis
    @tionis:matrix.org
    [m]
    Is it possible to get a specific file of snapshot, so something along the lines of
    bupstash get id="blabla" some/path/in/tar
    tionis
    @tionis:matrix.org
    [m]
    Nevermind I found the option I was looking for, its the bupstash get --pick flag
    andrewchambers
    @andrewchambers
    yeah pick is super handy
    earlier versions of bupstash didn't have it
    tionis
    @tionis:matrix.org
    [m]
    Yes it's very useful, I'm currently experimenting with using bupstash as backend for a kind of personal archive and that --pick option allows me to store complex metadata for it in a special file.