No. No I don't have 18EB of data; go home tarsnap, you're drunk.

[larryhynes]

tarsnap built from deb package, newly registered machine, first run of tarsnap:

$ tarsnap -cf foo ~
tarsnap: Removing leading '/' from member names
....
^C

(Set nodump flag on really big dir that I didn't want to back up)

$ tarsnap -cf foo ~
tarsnap: An archive already exists with the name "foo.part"
tarsnap: Error creating new archive
tarsnap: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

$ tarsnap --list-archives
foo.part

$ tarsnap -df foo.part
					Total size  Compressed size
All archives				18 EB            18 EB
  (unique data)				18 EB            18 EB
This archive				1.0 GB           997 MB
Deleted data				1.0 GB           997 MB

$ tarsnap -cf bar ~
tarsnap: Removing leading '/' from member names
tarsnap: Not adding cache directory to archive: /home/user/tarsnap_cache
					Total size  Compressed size
All archives				124 MB           100 MB
  (unique data)				123 MB           100 MB
This archive				124 MB           100 MB
New data					123 MB           100 MB

$ tarsnap --print-stats
					Total size  Compressed size
All archives				124 MB           100 MB
  (unique data)				123 MB           100 MB

Is 18EB just a placeholder value for when we don't know just how much data we have, or am I about to get a really big bill? 😃

[gperciva]

Nice! I can reproduce it, and should have a fix in a few minutes.

Since @cperciva doesn't think there should be legal action for an unpaid $0.00 bill (https://mobile.twitter.com/cperciva/status/799080890286542848), I think you'll be safe. :)

[cperciva]

This is issue #113, which I diagnosed years ago but never got around to fixing. Hopefully @gperciva can take care of this. :-)

[larryhynes]

All's well that ends well.