Personal Experience with Tarsnap Backup Service and Its Creator
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Summary
The author shares their recent experience with tarsnap, a command-line backup service described as "online backups for the truly paranoid." They discovered the tool during a personal digital resiliency audit and provide background on its creator Dr. Colin Percival and the small-scale operation of the business.
Key quotes
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"tarsnap the command-line program is the client-side tool you invoke to actually zip up and push your archives into the vault"
"Dr. Colin Percival, is a really smart and interesting dude for a whole bunch of reasons"
"the whole business is basically a two-man show between him and his brother these days"
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