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Tarsnap is brilliant. cperciva is a well known and respected HN user too.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva)

> cperciva is a well known and respected HN user too.

Irrelevant.

But maybe the fact that he has been a Security Officer of the FreeBSD project for many years is relevant (for those concerned of privacy/security): http://www.nux.ro/archive/2012/07/Colin_Percival_no_longer_S...

Tarsnap is by prolific HNer (cperciva). It's been on HN, literally, hundreds of times: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=tarsnap

I've used tarsnap for a few years. It's good.

Tip: forget everything you knew about scheduling full and incremental backups, because you don't have to. Tarsnap provides logical snapshots and does all the diff magic for you.

(Hence tar ... snap)