Tarsnap Backup Inc.

@Tarsnap

Tarsnap backup service. The owner tweets as and RTs Tarsnap-related tweets here.

Joined November 2009

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  1. May 26

    As a BSDCan sponsor, has a couple free registrations. I'd like to give these away to people who email me, before the end of May, saying (a) why they would like to attend, and (b) why they can't afford it.

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  2. May 4

    PSA: Make sure you back up your Death Star plans securely. With strong encryption, rebels won't be able to decipher the plans even if they manage to intercept the convoy which is transporting them.

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  3. Apr 3

    Well, I finally backed up my config files and project documents using . And it cost basically nothing. Why didn't I do this sooner?

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  4. Apr 1

    If anyone wants to make a final bitcoin payment to their account, you've got about 24 hours before I unplug those bits. (It would have happened earlier, but I was busy with a different set of updates to the website yesterday...)

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  5. Mar 31
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  6. Mar 15
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  7. Jan 29

    Proud to once again be a sponsor of . I'm sure there's plenty of space for more sponsors to join us -- maybe some other startups which use BSD?

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  8. Jan 28

    Tarsnap will stop accepting bitcoin payments on April 1st. (Also, Chrome had a bug which some Tarsnap users tripped over when trying to pay via credit cards.)

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  9. Jan 5

    Tarsnap wouldn't exist without open source software (including, but not limited to, FreeBSD). Would your startup exist without open source software? Do you contribute back to support it? If the answers to those questions are no, maybe you should give it some thought.

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  10. Jan 5

    Just mailed 's annual donation to the FreeBSD Foundation. Every year Tarsnap contributes an amount equal to its December operating profits to support open source software.

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  11. 23 Oct 2017

    If you're using Ubuntu Artful Aardvark and discovered that there weren't any binary packages for your system: Please try again now.

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  12. 20 Sep 2017

    I've seen an unusual number of Canadians signing up for in the past few days. Was there some news article I missed?

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  13. 29 Jul 2017
    Replying to

    The usual caveats about 1.0 releases apply - may be some rough edges, please report any issues, etc - but it has come a long way in 3 years.

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  14. 29 Jul 2017

    If you've ever complained that needs you to use a command line, try the GUI. Seriously, please try it. I think you'll like it.

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  15. 28 Jul 2017

    I just released tarsnap 1.0.39 with fixes for some crashes, including the "modification time < January 1, 1970" bug:

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  16. 28 Jul 2017
    Replying to

    In the mean time, if you pay for your backups using Bitcoin, you might want to add some money sooner rather than later.

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  17. 28 Jul 2017

    Tarsnap might be (hopefully temporarily) losing its ability to take Bitcoin payments on August 1. is working to resolve this.

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  18. 14 Jul 2017
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  19. 7 Jul 2017

    A new version of is in flight -- please test on all of your "weird" systems:

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  20. 9 Jun 2017

    Tarsnap is proud to be a sponsor of a conference where important work like this gets done.

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