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Tarsnap just uses S3 for storage. Would it not be cheaper to just use that yourself, and ditch the abstraction layer of Tarsnap?
by disadvantage 3y ago
Tarsnap just uses S3 for storage. Would it not be cheaper to just use that yourself, and ditch the abstraction layer of Tarsnap?
- voytec 3y agoThey use deduplication to upload differential backups for costs reduction, let you pay for months or years in advance, donate (iirc) 10% revenue to The FreeBSD Foundation and have more professional support.
- cperciva 3y agodonate (iirc) 10% revenue to The FreeBSD Foundation Tarsnap contributes an amount equal to its December operating profit to open source software. This largely takes the form of sponsoring conferences throughout the year and then the FreeBSD Foundation gets whatever is left in the budget (once I know how much profit Tarsnap made in December).