tarsnap
Snebu
tarsnap | Snebu | |
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11 | 10 | |
848 | 110 | |
0.4% | - | |
8.3 | 0.0 | |
12 days ago | over 3 years ago | |
C | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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tarsnap
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Where do you store your backups? What Provider if any?
Tarsnap for configs and critical stuff (password database, emails).
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3,200-Year-Old Egyptian Tablet Records Excuses for Why People Missed Work
Someone does :)
https://tarsnap.com
> Tarsnap uses a prepaid model based on actual usage:
> Storage: 250 picodollars / byte-month of encoded data
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What is the best private encrypted cloud storage?
Colin Percival's tarsnap
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Ask HN: Codebases with great, easy to read code?
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.
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I love the idea of tarsnap but a stable release hasn't been released since 2017. Is there a modern alternative, or is tarsnap actually still usable and secure?
I prefer Vorta myself ( https://github.com/borgbase/vorta ) as it also has incremental and encrypted backups, as well as being a fraction of the price, but tarsnap seems to still be in very-slow development: https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap , so I'd say from a quick look it's still trustworthy.
- Restic: Backups Done Right
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What's your backup strategy?
Each server also upload their configs and « important » data (my mails and git repos) to tarsnap 3. Tarsnap storage is not as cheap as B2, so I try not to upload too much data there, but it's reliable and easy to use. It was also my first backup solution, and barely cost me 10$ a year so I keep it as a secondary backup.
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FreeBSD SSH Hardening
Not foolish! 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,
- Deduplicating Archiver with Compression and Encryption
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The Wrong Way to Switch Operating Systems on Your Server
Yes. For the curious,
https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/graphs/contributors
Snebu
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I'm working on a tar implementation with public key encryption extensions.
As such, I use tar for the serialization of backup data for Snebu (https://www.snebu.com), which has a plugin (tarcrypt) that operates on the data streams. Snebu ingests tar format, and emits tar format, so all you need to backup/restore a host is ssh access (server can pull backups, or client can push backups). So tarcrypt was added as way to do client-side encryption, but still be able to to submit recognizable tar files to Snebu's backend (which indexes, de-duplicates, and snapshots backups).
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I'm giving out microgrants to open source projects for the third year in a row! Brag about your projects here so I can see them, big or small!
Snebu, on github. Simple Network Encrypting Backup Utility.
- Using Git For Backups
- Restic: Backups Done Right
- Deduplicating Archiver with Compression and Encryption
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Backup encryption using SSH keys with age anno 2021
Details are at https://www.snebu.com/tarcrypt.html if you want to look it over (and tarcypt is part of the Snebu project https://github.com/derekp7/snebu). I'd love to get another pair of eyes on this to point out any non-obvious security limitations.
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Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”
Since I've had a handful of users ask about cloud storage for Snebu, Would you be interested in adding Snebu as a supported protocol? It should be similar to how you currently support Borg. For Snebu, the client runs find and tar, sending results via ssh to the snebu binary on the remote host. And more recently client-side public key encryption support has been added via a client-side filter called "tarcrypt". Ideally, a customer would use Snebu to back up to a local device on their network (for example a Raspberry Pi with a large USB drive attached), and then use Snebu's efficient replication to send deltas to the cloud-hosted server. Client files are stored individually (deduplicated) on the Snebu server, and metadata is in an SQLite DB (advantages over Borg is more open standards for the data storage and public-key encryption, disadvantage is file-level instead of block-level deduplication and a project that isn't as widely used).
If you are interested, I would be more then happy to have an extended discussion with you going over implementation options, and updating the client side script to make it work better with your service. (https://www.snebu.com, https://github.com/derekp7/snebu, and the tarcrypt extensions to tar are described at https://www.snebu.com/tarcrypt.html).
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Pet Project Thread February 26 2021
Would a mention of my open source backup system, Snebu (or https://github.com/derekp7/snebu) fit in this thread? Elevator pitch -- GPLv3 C code, snapshot-based, compresses, encrypts, deduplicates, can back up clients without installing an agent (just need ssh, bash, tar, and find commands on client for "pull" backups), push backups can have restricted permissions (i.e., give a client permission to push backups only, but not delete backups, or give a user restore-only permissions). Uses tar to collect the data, stores metadata in an SQLite DB on the server, files are stored in LZO format (can be read directly with lzop) (unless client-side encryption is used, but the data can still be decrypted with openssl then decompressed with lzop). Encryption is public-key based instead of needing to keep a shared symmetric key or passphrase laying around on your backup server.
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What backup method do you use?
I created and use Snebu -- I'm working on getting it submitted to Fedora (waiting on package review now), doing daily snapshots of my fleet to a raspberry pi with external 12 TB WD Easystore drive. Provides push or pull based backups, granular access permissions, client-side public key encryption (RSA + AES-256) with HMAC validation, server-based data catalog housed in SQLite, multiple client support, global (cross client) file-level deduplication and compression. Works great for backing up a large range of OS versions since the client-side doesn't need an agent -- just bash, tar, find, and ssh.
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Encrypted Backup Shootout
snebu (c) - https://github.com/derekp7/snebu
What are some alternatives?
BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
UrBackup - UrBackup - Client/Server Open Source Network Backup for Windows, MacOS and Linux
restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
Elkarbackup - Open source backup solution for your network
rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files
bupstash - Easy and efficient encrypted backups.
nixos-infect - [GPLv3+] install nixos over the existing OS in a DigitalOcean droplet (and others with minor modifications)
Rsnapshot - a tool for backing up your data using rsync (if you want to get help, use https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss)
Duplicacy - A new generation cloud backup tool
Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!