On: Beta testers wanted -- tarsnap encrypted backup se...

[spydez]

I am /very/ interested, as I just searched for a good online backup system that worked with linux and came up empty handed.

Sadly, 30 cents/gig every month quits being an awesome deal when you got 200ish gigs of stuff you want backed up.

[cperciva → spydez]

You don't have to back up all of your data -- many beta testers have said things like "I have 400 MB of source code and documents which I'm going to back up, and 5 GB of music which I might back up... and 100 GB of ripped DVDs which I'm not going to bother with".

[spydez → cperciva]

I realize that and I'm doing that, but I got more data than your example. Mine's more along these lines:

      20 GB source and documents I want backed up.
     150 GB CDs ripped to mp3 and flac I want backed up.
    1000 GB ripped DVDs I'm not going to bother with.

Oh, and a few gigs of pictures. :/

Maybe I'm just a digital pack rat...

[cperciva → spydez]

How fast is your internet connection? 150 GB of music would take a month uploading at 0.5 Mbps.

[spydez → cperciva]

That's what rsync is for. ;) A month or so of uploading all day while I'm at work, and then a few mins a day from then on to upload the deltas.

I guess this brings up a good point. Does tarsnap do incremental backups?

[cperciva → spydez]

You can do incremental backups using tarsnap if you really want, using the --newer-mtime option (tarsnap can do anything that tar can do); but you don't actually want that. Tarsnap automatically does snapshotted backups (I posted some explanation of the difference a few minutes ago in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=183213) -- so all you need to do is tell tarsnap that you want to create another backup archive, and it will magically avoid storing multiple copies of the same data.