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For backups, I would recommend Restic. The author mentions Tarsnap, and if you don't want to back up five terabytes that is probably great, but after a few giga

by lucb1e 7y ago

For backups, I would recommend Restic. The author mentions Tarsnap, and if you don't want to back up five terabytes that is probably great, but after a few gigabytes it's just not economical for private persons. If you're on hacker news (i.e. the 'engineer' the author was talking about), odds are that storing a hard drive connected to a raspberry pi at your parents' and using Restic as client is an extremely cheap way of backing up many terabytes securely.

criddell 7y ago
For Windows users that were wondering, Restic doesn't back up files that are opened exclusively. VSS support on Windows is an open issue: https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/340 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/340
wbl 7y ago
I have a few gigabytes on tarsnap for pennies a day.
- lucb1e 7y ago
  Hence "after a few gigabytes".