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Command-line client code for Tarsnap.

17 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 0 stories, 17 comments · first 2016-09-01 · latest 2023-10-30

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  1. …own repo like Tarsnap. https://www.tarsnap.com/open-source.html Here's the source available one: https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap Here's the list of repos with some various open source ones to show it's open core:…
    comment by benatkin · 2023-10-30 · in Open source Datadog alternative SigNoz crosses 15K GitHub stars
  2. …emergency, you will always be able to get back your data from tarsnap at a blazing rate of 50kB/s https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/issues/333 .
    comment by patrec · 2023-07-27 · in Tarsnap outage postmortem
  3. Yes but read about restore time first - https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/issues/333
    comment by shortlived · 2023-04-01 · in Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users
  4. In past threads, people have mentioned enjoying my Tarsnap ( https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap ) code. I personally think that the spiped ( https://github.com/Tarsnap/spiped ) code is even better.
    comment by cperciva · 2022-03-21 · in Ask HN: Codebases with great, easy to read code?
  5. …- https://github.com/rsnapshot/rsnapshot snebu (c) - https://github.com/derekp7/snebu tarsnap (c) - https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap I think there are many more out there ( https://github.com/restic/others ) - I personally use restic…
    comment by sandreas · 2021-11-13 · in Restic – Backups Done Right
  6. …The Tarsnap client code is open source, but the license file prohibits anyone from using the code: https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/blob/master/COPYING > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, without modification, is…
    comment by sillysaurusx · 2021-09-16 · in FreeBSD SSH Hardening
  7. …- https://github.com/rsnapshot/rsnapshot snebu (c) - https://github.com/derekp7/snebu tarsnap (c) - https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap I think there are many more out there ( https://github.com/restic/others ) - I personally use restic…
    comment by sandreas · 2021-07-26 · in Deduplicating Archiver with Compression and Encryption
  8. Yes. For the curious, https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/graphs/contributors
    comment by gperciva · 2021-06-23 · in The wrong way to switch operating systems on your server
  9. Tarsnap seems to have become a multi-man operation. https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/commits/master
    comment by SamReidHughes · 2021-01-26 · in Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces
  10. …- https://github.com/rsnapshot/rsnapshot snebu (c) - https://github.com/derekp7/snebu tarsnap (c) - https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap I think there are many more out there ( https://github.com/restic/others ) - I personally use restic…
    comment by sandreas · 2021-01-03 · in Encrypted Backup Shootout
  11. Colin Percival's Tarsnap: https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/tree/master/libcperciva
    comment by Rzor · 2020-04-05 · in Ask HN: What are good open source projects to lean pure C programming from?
  12. Indeed, see http://www.tarsnap.com/open-source.html and https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/blob/master/COPYING
    comment by moviuro · 2019-03-14 · in PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution
  13. …to be worth reading as a good example of how to structure, document, and organize portable C. [0]: https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7602457
    comment by snazz · 2019-02-11 · in Ask HN: Most enjoyable source code to read?
  14. …example of where I think properly written C diverges from portable assembler is things like here: https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/blob/master/libcperciva/d... It depends on whether you think ELASTICARRAY_DECL is within the scope of…
    comment by SamReidHughes · 2019-01-11 · in Ask HN: What should a systems/low-level software engineer know?
  15. …a buggy LLVM optimization step from running (it was making the Tarsnap build hang on on OS X 10.7): https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/blob/master/tar/multitape...
    comment by cperciva · 2016-09-12 · in Ask HN: Strange bug workarounds?
  16. It's visible-source, not open source. https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/blob/master/COPYING
    comment by DeltaWhy · 2016-09-01 · in Rclone: rsync for cloud storage
  17. Free as in beer or freedom? FWIW, the client is open source: https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap
    comment by radioact1ve · 2016-09-01 · in Rclone: rsync for cloud storage