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elasticdog

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From: Washington, USA

Registered: 2005-05-02

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Tarsnap secure backup client now in the AUR

Ahoy all...just thought I'd make an announcement to garner some interest in tarsnap, which is now available in the AUR. Tarsnap is basically an extremely secure, CLI, online encrypted backup service that utilizes snapshots instead of full/incremental style backups. It is a paid service that uses Amazon's S3 as a backend...you can think of it as a better version of something like JungleDisk. It is written by Colin Percival, the Security Officer of FreeBSD, and is currently in beta.

The client is free and you are able to view the source (but cannot modify it) and the program's functionality is similar to that of tar. I've been using it for the past couple of months and have been extremely pleased. For instructions on its operation and initial setup, read the project's web site. Let me know what you think!