What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap

Re:What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap by patio11 on Thursday April 03, 2014 @01:31PM (#7524482)

If you think Tarsnap is Dropbox with an open source client (but marketed differently), a) you do not understand the engineering reality of Tarsnap (or you have a very... curious understanding of Dropbox) and b) Colin, please note that your marketing is creating fans who think that Tarsnap is Dropbox with an open source client.

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Re:What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap by noir_lord on Thursday April 03, 2014 @02:57PM (#7525155)

I meant the product described in the blog post not tarsnap as it currently is.

I'm quite aware of what tarsnap is.

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Re:What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap by scott_s on Thursday April 03, 2014 @03:16PM (#7525352)

I think Patrick's comment still applies if you think he described "Dropbox with an open source client." Since it's still tarsnap, it still retains all of the security benefits of tarsnap. Saying "open source client" does not capture that.

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Re:What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap by genwin on Thursday April 03, 2014 @02:12PM (#7524807)

How about Dropbox + TrueCrypt, except easier to automate and much cheaper beyond Dropbox's free tier, in exchange for taking the risk on a one-person business?

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Re:What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap by vertex-four on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:09PM (#7526100)

You realise that Dropbox isn't a backup system, right?

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Re:What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap by genwin on Thursday April 03, 2014 @05:00PM (#7526613)

I have a backup file there, so can confirm it does work for that purpose.

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Re:What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap by wglb on Thursday April 03, 2014 @05:21PM (#7526830)

Um, no.

Delete that file on one device, it is gone from all that share it.

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Re:What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap by dennisgorelik on Thursday April 03, 2014 @06:36PM (#7527513)

Dropbox preserves history of the file even after file was deleted.

Especially with Packrat feature.

https://www.dropbox.com/help/11/en

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Re:What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap by genwin on Thursday April 03, 2014 @07:36PM (#7527928)

Didn't know, thanks! Also didn't know that (from Dropbox help) "Your files are stored using 256-bit AES encryption". You have to trust them with the keys though.

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Re:What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap by genwin on Thursday April 03, 2014 @06:32PM (#7527486)

Put only a backup copy (not the source file) into Dropbox or Tarsnap. Don't delete the file on either system. Same boat.

Scripts can copy out from the Dropbox to both negate your issue and proliferate backup copies to many physical locations.

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