Re:Ask HN: What do you use for personal, offsite backup?
by shrughes on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @10:11PM
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> Unless you look at source code, you'll never know if a backup service is encrypting your backups or not. At least with tarsnap you have the option of reading the source code to verify that tarsnap does what I say it does. :-)
You could reverse engineer the protocol that other products use. :_) And I'd rather just assume that somebody else has reviewed the source code.
Unless you look at source code, you'll never know if a backup service is encrypting your backups or not. At least with tarsnap you have the option of reading the source code to verify that tarsnap does what I say it does. :-)
... and I have no idea if it's making a backup in the first place.
tarsnap --list-archives, tarsnap -t, and tarsnap -x are your friends. The ultimate test of whether a backup was created -- for any backup system -- is "can I get my data back".