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Re: What's your offsite backup solution?

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On 2014-05-17, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On 5/17/14 7:48 PM, Larry Hynes wrote:
>>On 2014-05-17, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>>> From the «truckload full of CDs hurtling down the highway» department:
>>> Title: What Is Your Offsite Storage Solution?
>>
>>https://www.tarsnap.com/
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> I'm really happy you responded with tarsnap.  Somebody posted it to the
>  Pipedot article too, so I went to check it out and am intrigued!  Looks
>  like an implementation of rsync though.  Is that correct?  
> One option I was considering was rsync.net but with per-gigabyte charges it
>  adds up fast, and what I'm really hoping to back up are my photos, which
>  were many gigs.

Honestly, one of the things I like most about it is I have very little
idea what's going on 'under the hood' and I have great faith that the
proprietor does! :) He gives a breakdown of the technicalities here:
https://www.tarsnap.com/technical.html
It *feels* more like tar than rsync, but with a remote write address,
which is S3. Once it's set up, creating an archive is as simple as
`tarsnap -c -f myarchive /home/me`, which archives your home dir to your
Amazon storage, in an encrypted format. I run it nightly on nearly all
my machines, and have restored from it without issue.

I also recently bought a 2TB external and wrote everything that was to
be found on any drive here to it, then entrusted it to my folks for
safe-keeping in the event of a catastrophe - a dated off-site
backup, to be sure, but better than nothing! :)

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What's your offsite backup solution? RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-17 19:44 +0000
  Re: What's your offsite backup solution? Larry Hynes <larry@larryhynes.com> - 2014-05-17 19:48 +0000
    Re: What's your offsite backup solution? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-17 21:27 +0000
      Re: What's your offsite backup solution? Larry Hynes <larry@larryhynes.com> - 2014-05-17 22:14 +0000
      Re: What's your offsite backup solution? Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-17 23:16 +0000
        Re: What's your offsite backup solution? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-18 06:12 +0000
          Re: What's your offsite backup solution? Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-18 15:11 +0000
            Re: What's your offsite backup solution? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-18 18:52 +0200
  Re: What's your offsite backup solution? scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-05-21 15:40 +0000

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