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		lucb1e on July 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The PGP Problem For backups, I would recommend Restic. The author mentions Tarsnap, and if you don't want to back up five terabytes that is probably great, but after a few gigabytes it's just not economical for private persons. If you're on hacker news (i.e. the 'engineer' the author was talking about), odds are that storing a hard drive connected to a raspberry pi at your parents' and using Restic as client is an extremely cheap way of backing up many terabytes securely.

criddell on July 17, 2019 | [–]

For Windows users that were wondering, Restic doesn't back up files that are opened exclusively.

VSS support on Windows is an open issue:

https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/340

wbl on July 17, 2019 | [–]

I have a few gigabytes on tarsnap for pennies a day.

lucb1e on July 17, 2019 | [–]

Hence "after a few gigabytes".

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