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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

Spiped – secure pipe for SSH, SMTP, etc.

https://www.tarsnap.com/spiped.html

#HackerNews #Spiped #Secure #Pipe #SSH #SMTP #Tarsnap #Cybersecurity

This week's donation went to a software developer named Colin Percival who also goes by "cperciva". He contributes to GhostBSD, FreeBSD, and Tarsnap among others. github.com/cperciva www.daemonology.net #ghostbsd #freebsd #github #foss #tarsnap

cperciva - Overview

new blog post: Reduce The Size Of Your Tarsnap Backups With This One Weird Trick (the trick is “pay attention to the size of your backups”) https://lucaswerkmeister.de/posts/2024/12/10/tarsnap-backup-size/

#tarsnap #backup

Here’s a small but useful shell function to analyze the size of tarsnap backups according to your current --exclude config without the overhead of creating and extracting the backups: https://github.com/lucaswerkmeister/home/blob/master/.bashrc.d/ncdu-tarsnap

#tarsnap #backup

@jo I usually recommend multiple backup strategies; one fast and convenient one, that works for the usual >99% of cases, and one that may be slow but provides additional robustness and resilience against malicious data destruction and site-wide emergencies like fire or floods. Take a look at combining your existing #tarsnap with #sanoid and #syncoid
https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid

I like Tarsnap for the simplicity, but it is _so slow_ to restore backups. I should really have a faster, alternate method. I'm kicking around zfs send/receive...

#freebsd #tarsnap

Just read that #Tarsnap, a great, easy to use, secure offsite backup solution running not only on #FreeBSD but also e.g. on #Linux, #Windows or #macOS, has over the years donated $274,482 to #OpenSource: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2023-10-25-2%5E18-dollars-to-open-source.html

I have been a happy user of Tarsnap for many years myself, so I can only highly recommend it, even more so since Colin Percival, who is maintaining it, is very transparent about the design:

http://www.tarsnap.com/

Okay so there doesn't seem to be anyone even on corp having built an aarch64 RPM for #tarsnap on #CentOS 9?

Do I have to go out of my way to build my own RPMs for this one? I guess I can if forced to…

@jcamos You might want to check out #tarsnap, it is built on top of #FreeBSD and Colin Percival is also an active FreeBSD developer.

I have used it for many years in the past and I have been very happy with it.

https://www.tarsnap.com/

@nixCraft

I'm not sure what you'd do for accessible storage but if you want backups you could use something like #tarsnap. Everythingbis encrypted before its sent.

@AngryAnt I heard a lot of good things about #tarsnap several years ago. Dunno if that might fit your needs?

http://www.tarsnap.com

I use #tarsnap to back up my hosts. Amazing service, but it has one nearly supernatural quirk.

They send their "your account is running low" notices immediately after I empty my Paypal account. Every. Single. Time.

The guy who started it is one of those "got his PhD at 20" math geniuses, but apparently his skills extend far beyond mere numbers. :flan_dalf:

@[email protected]

something like #Tarsnap but as a more flexible option not hard-locked on #AmazonGlacier

@amolith I thought #tarsnap was a selfhost solution ... but it doesn't look expensive at all.

#backups