6 engineers on Hacker News describe using Tarsnap first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“The main issue with Tarsnap we had is it's very slow to restore if you have big backups.”
regret · production · Negitivefrags · 2017-05-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“If your data is valuable, consider storing it with something like https://www.tarsnap.com (highly recommended!)”
endorse · production · Rezo · 2016-03-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“While we use tarsnap for our server backups, it's not something I'd use for frequent desktop backups.”
mixed · production · wheels · 2011-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we sync our various individual devices to our server using scheduled jobs and then back up everything relevant from the server using Tarsnap.”
neutral · personal · Chris_Newton · 2019-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our Tarsnap account (which we use for backup) has passed 1.2 TB.”
neutral · production · Negitivefrags · 2013-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?