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OP here. I found them looking for a good backup solution. They look amazing. Bug bounties for everything (including cosmetic stuff), completely transparent arc
by tete 13y ago
OP here. I found them looking for a good backup solution.
They look amazing. Bug bounties for everything (including cosmetic stuff), completely transparent architecture, data deduplication and compression on the fly, they will be up even if two of Amazon's data centers fail, one pays per byte (traffic/store) and for all that they are pretty cheap.
- DanBC 13y agoTarsnap is brilliant. cperciva is a well known and respected HN user too. (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva)
- herenowgonenow 13y ago> cperciva is a well known and respected HN user too. Irrelevant.
- Ecio78 13y agoBut maybe the fact that he has been a Security Officer of the FreeBSD project for many years is relevant (for those concerned of privacy/security): http://www.nux.ro/archive/2012/07/Colin_Percival_no_longer_Security_Officer_for_FreeBSD.html http://www.nux.ro/archive/2012/07/Colin_Percival_no_longer_S...
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- ra 13y agoTarsnap is by prolific HNer (cperciva). It's been on HN, literally, hundreds of times: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=tarsnap https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=tarsnap
- jacques_chester 13y agoI've used tarsnap for a few years. It's good. Tip: forget everything you knew about scheduling full and incremental backups, because you don't have to. Tarsnap provides logical snapshots and does all the diff magic for you. (Hence tar ... snap)