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Always wanted to try Tarsnap for personal use, but I can only budget if the cost was comparable to Dropbox/Microsoft OneDrive/Google Drive/iCloud/Amazon Drive w
by Osmium 10y ago
Always wanted to try Tarsnap for personal use, but I can only budget if the cost was comparable to Dropbox/Microsoft OneDrive/Google Drive/iCloud/Amazon Drive which are all ~$10/TB/mo, but instead Tarsnap seems about an order of magnitude more expensive? Or is the product just not aimed at me?
I currently use Arq[1] for backups (which has its own encryption[2] with a user choice of cloud backend), but Tarsnap has such a stellar reputation I'd definitely try it if I could :)
[1] https://www.arqbackup.com https://www.arqbackup.com
[2] AES-256 with PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC_SHA1 for key derivation, implemented by OpenSSL, with an open file format https://www.arqbackup.com/arq_data_format.txt https://www.arqbackup.com/arq_data_format.txt
- CodeWriter23 10y agoTarsnap stores in S3, which is the primary cost driver. For the extra expense, you get multi-region durability up to I think it's six nines.
- y4mi 10y agoi haven't used tarsnap either, but i see it as cold storage. dropbox, onedrive, etc are all hot storage and would get rendered useless by a cryptolocker cant say anything about arq, as ive never head of them.
- hobarrera 10y agoAre you really sure you need all that storage? Tarsnap has deduplication, so you might end up using a lot less. Or not. It depends on your use-case, but I'm just suggesting you consider that factor too.