But really if you want to make it dead simple you can't go wrong with tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/). It's written and maintained by one of the biggest names in the crypto community, the guy who has spawned scrypt, among other things.
> But really if you want to make it dead simple you can't go wrong with tarsnap
I'd call this everything but dead simple. Maybe for the average software engineer it's okay but I don't I could tell anyone in my family to set this up themselves and then monitor that it's doing it's thing correctly.
TimeMachine is two clicks in self explaining steps (Plug in empty external drive, OS asks if you want to use it as a backup source, you click "yes" and it starts doing backups every hour). That's probably what GP meant with "Make it super easy." not this: https://www.tarsnap.com/gettingstarted.html
> But really if you want to make it dead simple you can't go wrong with tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/). It's written and maintained by one of the biggest names in the crypto community, the guy who has spawned scrypt, among other things.
Well, patio11 said several years ago that tarsnap should charge a lot more. But even at its current prices, the service is way too expensive for personal backups that run into hundreds of GBs. Personal data may not be significantly amenable to deduplication. So almost all the data will be counted for billing. It may be a good solution for tiny backups that run into a few MBs and/or have a lot of duplicated data across the filesystem that's being backed up.
Other people would also recommend borg (https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) although I've never used it so I can't say anything about it. rsync.net even has a special offer if you're using them (https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html)
But really if you want to make it dead simple you can't go wrong with tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/). It's written and maintained by one of the biggest names in the crypto community, the guy who has spawned scrypt, among other things.