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Rsync.net has offered similar services for quite a while now. It's a little more product-ized, they have more options for service, and they guarantee you can ta
by neilk 17y ago
Rsync.net has offered similar services for quite a while now. It's a little more product-ized, they have more options for service, and they guarantee you can talk to an engineer at any time.
It's a little more expensive than Dr. Percival -- or maybe not, depending on your access patterns and volume discounts. But I'm a bit leery of trusting an organization that is just one guy who already has a day job.
http://rsync.net/ http://rsync.net/
- cperciva 17y agoRsync.net has offered similar services for quite a while now. rsync.net is a great service, but I wouldn't say that it was similar to Tarsnap. If you backup your data to rsync.net, they can access it. I'm a bit leery of trusting an organization that is just one guy who already has a day job. Erm... what's my day job? Other than Tarsnap, that is?
- JoachimSchipper 17y agoWell, to be fair, they do note that one can upload via duplicity, which apparently does encrypt backups: http://rsync.net/products/encrypted.html http://rsync.net/products/encrypted.html. Of course, there's a distinction between "we accept encrypted backups" and Tarsnap's "encrypt everything, trust no man/program".
- neilk 17y ago> Erm... what's my day job? Oh, I'm sorry, I made a silly assumption. From the "Dr." handle, and the FreeBSD contributions, I assumed you were an academic who had a sort of side business going.
- cperciva 17y agoThe doctorate just means that I spent years at a university in the past, not that I'm still at a university. :-) I am still very academic-minded, and serve my alma mater in a voluntary capacity on a few committees, but Tarsnap is absolutely a real business and is what I spend the vast majority of my time on.