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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool? by cperciva on Sunday November 28, 2010 @01:35AM (#1946852)
Wow. I go AFK for a few hours (orchestra concert, fundraiser for something) and when I come back online I see this thread. I click on it, all ready to type out a comment saying "I kinda like this tool I wrote for myself, called Tarsnap"... and I find that the top comment, with 3x as many points as any others, is recommending Tarsnap.

I love my users.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool? by z92 on Sunday November 28, 2010 @01:49AM (#1946868)
Seriously, consider writing a client for Windows and your business should increase 10 folds.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool? by cperciva on Sunday November 28, 2010 @02:40AM (#1946940)
Tarsnap will support windows eventually. But seriously, if Tarsnap usage increases tenfold overnight, the service will collapse under the load the following morning. Making sure that the service keeps running smoothly takes priority over attracting new users.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool? by esun on Sunday November 28, 2010 @03:15AM (#1946989)
I like you, and I like your service. I especially like that your service is clearly designed to be a successful operating business rather than a 'sell it to google' startup. I wish you much success.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool? by cperciva on Sunday November 28, 2010 @07:57AM (#1947278)
It's pure selfishness, really. I use Tarsnap, and lots of my friends do too. If I sold Tarsnap and ran, I wouldn't have good backups any more, and I would have a lot of ex-friends upset with me for not taking better care of their backups. :-)
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