My issue with tarsnap vs Dropbox is entirely workflow. Right now I can treat my Dropbox effectively as an external drive that happens to live on my file system

My issue with tarsnap vs Dropbox is entirely workflow. Right now I can treat my Dropbox effectively as an external drive that happens to live on my file system by making everything selectively synced. If I want something backed up, I just drag it into that folder. But once it’s backed up I can turn on selective sync and free up my disk space. Backup of personal data is often a 1-way endeavor — here’s a dump of photos I scanned that I don’t need to look at anytime soon. But with tarsnap I can’t do that, nor can I then have the ease of browsing to the file and just opening it while it transparently downloads on demand.