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What would be the benefit of tarsnap over using something like restic+backblaze at order(s) of magnitude lower cost? What specific need would motivate you to pa
by colonwqbang 3y ago
What would be the benefit of tarsnap over using something like restic+backblaze at order(s) of magnitude lower cost? What specific need would motivate you to pay $3000 per TB-year?
- jpgvm 3y agoExtremely good deduplication means that for the core set of very important data I backup to Tarsnap the costs are negligible. I imagine the math is probably different if your data is changing more frequently. I for instance use other services to manage my video and photo libraries but my accounting databases, critical documents, etc are backed up to Tarsnap. I have been using Tarsnap for a decade and not only has there been minimal availability issues there have been almost no issues of any kind that I can recall.
- carapace 3y agoSome of us have lots of extra money and like an excuse to give some of it to cperciva so he doesn't have to work a shit job and can apply his skills and talents to bigger, better things? (People here asking about the low Bus Factor: you don't keep your backups in one service/location, eh? You use Tarsnap and Restic with Backblaze, Rsync.net, S3, etc. right? "Backups are a tax you pay for the luxury of restore.")