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I used tarsnap for years, but as my data got bigger and I really wanted to have multipe offsite backups with different providers, I moved to restic. I loved tarsnap - it's a great product. But restic feels very similar but you can backup to your local HD, a remote HD, or "the cloud" and everything is the same CLI commands.
I've been using tarsnap for years and am in the process of migrating away from it. Things that are not cozy: 1) There's no way to monitor your monthly spend per host/credit left on the account/etc. apart of logging into your account in a browser and manually keeping a spreadsheet. There's no web API to do it. You get an email warning when you have about 7 days of credit left. That's it. 2) Nothing is "a precious few…
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A hard drive under the bed is not the only alternative to tarsnap, you can use any of its numerous competitors that are also maintained by professionals, whose whole business is also running a backup service. Say rsync.net or borgbase, which are at least 10× cheaper than tarsnap last time I compared them, and can be used with restic or borg which are much faster at restoring even relatively small amounts data (forget…
> A hard drive under the bed is not the only alternative to tarsnap Also you can back up to the hard drive under your friend's bed, and they can back up to the hard drive under your bed. If you're even slightly technical, or have a friend who is, I'd recommend both of you buying the cheapest Kirkwood NASes you can find on ebay, throwing Debian on them, and becoming each other's backup buddies. https://forum.doozan.co…
Does anyone know how it compares to restic or duplicate?
Storing one terabyte of data in tarsnap costs $250 per month.
I've been using tarsnap for years and am in the process of migrating away from it. Things that are not cozy: 1) There's no way to monitor your monthly spend per host/credit left on the account/etc. apart of logging into your account in a browser and manually keeping a spreadsheet. There's no web API to do it. You get an email warning when you have about 7 days of credit left. That's it. 2) Nothing is "a precious few…
I found restic is a prety cool alternative. (No hosting though, I am sending restic backups to a private server/vps)
restic, and my own computers and storage, and the occasional rented device (VPS or similar, typically)
i find that the hassle of setting up my stuff is still preferable than having to worry about managing bills, subscriptions, and third parties just changing their policies
I've been using tarsnap for years and am in the process of migrating away from it. Things that are not cozy: 1) There's no way to monitor your monthly spend per host/credit left on the account/etc. apart of logging into your account in a browser and manually keeping a spreadsheet. There's no web API to do it. You get an email warning when you have about 7 days of credit left. That's it. 2) Nothing is "a precious few…
Sounds like it's just a worse Glacier setup then? Amazon has Pre-Pay in a semi-open beta. CloudFront has 1TB/month free- knocking a large chunk of a restore's cost. (Note- you should have either encrypted your stuff yourself and/or S3 authorization/access control still works over CF) At what seems to be $5/TiB/mo cheaper than anybody else.
Also cozy if your data fits. No monthly fee, just the cost of new/recycled thumbies