Tarsnap
Sign in to saveTarsnap is a secure online backup service for UNIX-like operating systems, including BSD, Linux, and OS X. It was created in 2008 by Colin Percival. Tarsnap encrypts data, and then stores it on Amazon S3.
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Tarsnap is a secure, efficient online backup service: "Online backups for the truly paranoid". :exclamation: We strongly recommend that people follow the installation instructions at to use an official release. This repository is intended for developers who may wish to watch changes in progress, investigate bugs, or test new (unreleased) features.
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- Official website
- www.tarsnap.com
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- source code repository URL
- github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap
- software version identifier
- 1.0.41
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Tarsnap is a secure online backup service for UNIX-like operating systems, including BSD, Linux, and OS X. It was created in 2008 by Colin Percival. Tarsnap encrypts data, and then stores it on Amazon S3.
==Service== The service is designed for efficiency, only uploading and storing data that has directly changed since the last backup. Its security keys are known only to the user.