rlpowell

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   by rlpowell 15y ago

   tl;dr: different people think differently, and that doesn't mean they're stupid. I'm exactly like the person you describe, arethuza. I've been a sysadmin for 15 years, and am fantastic at what I do and am highly sought after by recruiters a
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   by rlpowell 15y ago

   What rsync.net actually says: "This simple offering gives you complete control over organization, compression, deduplication, versioning and meta-data. You are NOT locked into a particular application or protocol, and there are no constrain
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   by rlpowell 15y ago

   It is, and tarsnap does it really, REALLY well. I'm backing up what is, on disk, umm... (checks emails) about 15GiB, and I'm currently spending about 8 cents a day. Now if he'd just implement de-dupe across machines on a given account..
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   by rlpowell 15y ago

   As a large customer considering moving to tarsnap, there is one area in which they have no functional competitors I have been able to find: scriptable (i.e. command line based) remote backup with decent deduplication. All of the cheaper op