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I'm still not sure whether I can trust somebody else with my data, but I'm growing more and more concerned of hardware failure of my own backups. Might try Tars
by nuttendorfer 13y ago
I'm still not sure whether I can trust somebody else with my data, but I'm growing more and more concerned of hardware failure of my own backups. Might try Tarsnap one of these days.
- marcosdumay 13y agoIt aledgely encripts all your data at the local machine, before sending it to the server. Now, of course, if you are truly paranoid, you'll want to review their code first. I don't get why I can't simply mount a volume with encription and write there. Using code that is already on my machine (on the kernel, nonetheless) would make it a much simpler decision.
- profquail 13y agoDid you just assume the source code wasn't available? It's not linked from the front page of the site, but if you go to the 'Download' page, it's right there for your review: https://www.tarsnap.com/download.html https://www.tarsnap.com/download.html
- cperciva 13y agoI don't get why I can't simply mount a volume with encription and write there. You can (and you could even use tarsnap to back up the encrypted filesystem image if you want), but writing your data to an encrypted filesystem tends to expand the amount of data changing -- in the extreme case, if you create a copy of a file you'll write that many blocks of new encrypted data which needs to be backed up, whereas tarsnap would just say "hey, I recognize all these blocks, it's those ones I backed up earlier" -- so Tarsnap's encrypted backups of a filesystem tend to be many times more efficient than backups of an encrypted filesystem.
- objectivefs 13y agoI don't get why I can't simply mount a volume with encription and write there. If you want to mount an encrypted filesystem stored on S3, you might want to try ObjectiveFS. https://objectivefs.com https://objectivefs.com