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I love it. Actually, I went looking for this exact product but for windows earlier. Sort of like R1Soft, but for windows + encrypted with a key only I know. (I

I love it. Actually, I went looking for this exact product but for windows earlier. Sort of like R1Soft, but for windows + encrypted with a key only I know. (I dont trust mozy/carbonite/etc.. ) Anyone know of anything?

m_eiman 17y ago
Since the code is included, it might be possible to compile and run it through Cygwin?
- cperciva 17y ago
  Yes, several people are using Tarsnap via Cygwin. It's not something I recommend to the general public, but I imagine the readership of Hacker News wouldn't have any difficulty with this.
  - sriramk 17y ago
    I've been using it on Cygwin since the beginning. Frankly, its fairly straight forward. The 'configure, make, make install' works out of the box and afterwards you do the same thing you'd do a *nix box. I've had no trouble at all.
  - jhancock 17y ago
    Is it possible for you to provide a pre-compiled client for windows without the cygwin install?
    - cperciva 17y ago
      Pre-compiled clients are on my to-do list. Obviously I want to do this is a systematic manner so that my release process is more repeatable than "find boxes running the following operating systems: ... and borrow them for a few minutes to build a binary". I'm not sure if it's possible to build binaries using cygwin which will then run without having cygwin installed. If not, this would turn into "port tarsnap to Windows", which is also on my to-do list, but much lower down.
      - jhancock 17y ago
        When you finally do have a pre-compiled windows app, sans cygwin, I'll have more clients to refer to tarsnap. One client I'm dealing with now has health care data needing backup. I wouldn't trust other online backup services with this, but would trust tarsnap. For now, we're using USB hard drives.
      - felixmar 17y ago
        With MinGW you can cross-compile from Linux (and perhaps also from FreeBSD). Imho Cygwin is not suitable for applications like tarsnap that should be very reliable and fast.
      - 0wned 17y ago
        Try mingw and msys. You can compile static, stand-alone C or C++ code for distribution.
        cperciva 17y ago
        Thanks, I'll be looking into that. Does mingw provide a full POSIX API layer?
      - smh 17y ago
        Investigate the -mno-cygwin option for gcc.

m_eiman 17y ago

Since the code is included, it might be possible to compile and run it through Cygwin?

cperciva 17y ago
Yes, several people are using Tarsnap via Cygwin. It's not something I recommend to the general public, but I imagine the readership of Hacker News wouldn't have any difficulty with this.
- sriramk 17y ago
  I've been using it on Cygwin since the beginning. Frankly, its fairly straight forward. The 'configure, make, make install' works out of the box and afterwards you do the same thing you'd do a *nix box. I've had no trouble at all.
- jhancock 17y ago
  Is it possible for you to provide a pre-compiled client for windows without the cygwin install?
  - cperciva 17y ago
    Pre-compiled clients are on my to-do list. Obviously I want to do this is a systematic manner so that my release process is more repeatable than "find boxes running the following operating systems: ... and borrow them for a few minutes to build a binary". I'm not sure if it's possible to build binaries using cygwin which will then run without having cygwin installed. If not, this would turn into "port tarsnap to Windows", which is also on my to-do list, but much lower down.
    - jhancock 17y ago
      When you finally do have a pre-compiled windows app, sans cygwin, I'll have more clients to refer to tarsnap. One client I'm dealing with now has health care data needing backup. I wouldn't trust other online backup services with this, but would trust tarsnap. For now, we're using USB hard drives.
    - felixmar 17y ago
      With MinGW you can cross-compile from Linux (and perhaps also from FreeBSD). Imho Cygwin is not suitable for applications like tarsnap that should be very reliable and fast.
    - 0wned 17y ago
      Try mingw and msys. You can compile static, stand-alone C or C++ code for distribution.
      - cperciva 17y ago
        Thanks, I'll be looking into that. Does mingw provide a full POSIX API layer?
    - smh 17y ago
      Investigate the -mno-cygwin option for gcc.