#TarSnap is one of those few services I trust completely. I just had to restore a critical service from backup.
It was less than 5 minutes work, most of which was waiting for AWS to slurp my data and throw it over the network.
Installation et configuration de Tarsnap sous amd64 et arm64

1 mai 2026 Date de rédaction : 2026-05-01 Date de péremption : 2026-11-01 Bonjour à tous, J’ai décidé de vous causer de tarsnap aujourd’hui, un programme que j’utilise depuis sa création et auquel je...

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Installation et configuration de Tarsnap sous amd64 et arm64

1 mai 2026 Date de rédaction : 2026-05-01 Date de péremption : 2026-11-01 Bonjour à tous, J’ai décidé de vous causer de tarsnap aujourd’hui, un programme que j’utilise depuis sa création et auquel je...

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Did you know that on Unix or Linux, if you

* issue `$ rm -r *` when accidentally in the wrong directory
* stop it quickly enough with CTRL-C

You can clearly see your own data destruction occurred in alphabetical order.

*Thank you for coming to my TED talk.*

(#Tarsnap - online backups for the truly paranoid.)

@trezzer #Tarsnap is end-to-end encrypted, using Amazon storage buckets on the backend, and reasonably priced. https://www.tarsnap.com

I also like rclone, which was mentioned.

Tarsnap - Online backups for the truly paranoid

Tarsnap is a secure online backup system for UNIX

Touring alternatives to Sourcehut for my personal repos. Partly because I hate git, partly because I know I’m abusing the binary files and repo size rules there.

#Diversion works well… but it’s totally closed and only offers a cloud tier for indie license. Not sure about what would happen in the event they’re acquired or fold. Does the indie license entitle me to any backup of my data/property??

#Perforce, the devil I know and easily self-hosted. But… closed. That hasn’t bothered me in the past and I feel that the company is possibly more viable (I’m less worried about losing stuff).

#ArkVCS, very reasonable licensing, also closed. But ultimately a hobby thing. I’m wary about hitching my wagon to it still.

#subversion, my old faithful. Tried and true. Easy to self host and free and open.

In all self-hosting cases I’m going to just run a small machine at home with tailscale to avoid dealing with internet bullshit. Backups are key then. I’m considering #tarsnap. Any others?

A #PSA for #Tarsnap users on #OpenBSD. You'll want to build an update from ports due to std changes between 7.7 and 7.8:
$ tarsnap --help
tarsnap:/usr/local/lib/libbz2.so.10.4: undefined symbol '__stderr'
tarsnap:/usr/local/lib/libbz2.so.10.4: undefined symbol '__stdin'
tarsnap:/usr/local/lib/libbz2.so.10.4: undefined symbol '__stdout'

#BSD
Tarsnap - Online backups for the truly paranoid

Tarsnap is a secure online backup system for UNIX

🌘 Tarsnap 予人溫馨的感覺
➤ 為何 Tarsnap 的簡約設計與安全模型讓人感到安心
https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/tarsnap-is-cozy/
本文作者分享他近期開始使用 Tarsnap 進行個人數位備份的經驗。他認為 Tarsnap 的設計,無論是其基於 Unix 哲學的指令行介面,還是預付費模式所帶來的匿名性,都讓他感到非常安心且「溫馨」。作者特別讚賞 Tarsnap 的實用性和創辦人 Dr. Colin Percival 的遠見,並提及他自行開發的 Tarsnap 成本估算器。文章也探討了 Tarsnap 的定價模式,指出即使是少量關鍵資料的備份,費用也能維持極長時間。作者最後表達了對 Tarsnap 的高度肯定,認為這是個「夢幻產品」。
+ Tarsnap 的預付費模式確實很有創意,能兼顧成本與匿名性,這點我倒是沒想到。
+ 作者把 Tarsnap 形容為「溫馨」很有趣,我一直以為備份服務就該冷冰冰的。他的觀點讓我重新思考。
#Tarsnap #備份 #雲端儲存 #安全 #個人數位韌性
tarsnap is cozy

I have been aware of tarsnap for a long time, but only recently did I actually get around to using it for anything, as a result of my big personal digital resiliency audit for 2025. For those of you not in the know, tarsnap is “online backups for the truly paranoid”, and tarsnap the command-line program is the client-side tool you invoke to actually zip up and push your archives into the vault. Its creator, Dr. Colin Percival, is a really smart and interesting dude for a whole bunch of reasons. I’m led to believe the whole business is basically a two-man show between him and his brother these days.

Redoing my home tarsnap config because I changed "servers" from one to another. Always good to back up your important stuff offside, and encrypted. #tarsnap