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[PStamatiou]

bookmarked your site when tarsnap beta came out/was on HN. Skimmed it briefly bit but honestly couldn't figure out how tarsnap worked so I tagged it "toread" and left it at that. ;-P Will go back through your archives now.

[cperciva → PStamatiou]

honestly couldn't figure out how tarsnap worked

Tell me more -- what was unclear?

[PStamatiou → cperciva]

I remember wondering if it was a local thing that I had to pay for or if it was some cloud like service that I pay for and upload to..

[cperciva → PStamatiou]

Tarsnap is a backup service -- you pay to store your backups on it.

And thanks for replying; knowing what people find unclear will make my life much easier when I write all the text for the tarsnap website. :-)

[PStamatiou → cperciva]

yeah i gotcha. when I first heard about it I wasn't sure if it was more a security tool or a backup tool, and/or how it compared to my current S3 setup.

[cperciva → PStamatiou]

Tarsnap is both a security tool and a backup tool. It's a tool for secure backups; and good backups, as a risk mitigation tool, are an important part of security.