alt Hacker NewsHas Tarsnap become inadequate, security-wise? The service may be expensive for a standard backup. It had a serious bug in 2011, but hasn't it been adequate since then?
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eddythompson80 • 01/03/2026
I don’t know anything that makes me think it’s inadequate per se, but it’s also been more than 10 years since I thought about it. Restic, gocryptfs, and/or age are far more flexible, generic and flat out better in managing encrypted files/backups depending on how you want to orchestrate it. Restic can do everything, gocryptfs+rclone can do more, etc.
you cannot selfhost it. it's not verified and audited independently as a whole system.
for some people, that's important