Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodontech.de/@alterelefant" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>alterelefant</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/@HauntedOwlbear" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>HauntedOwlbear</span></a></span> <em>nodds in agreement</em></p><ul><li>If you trust yourself and/or staff to properly make, test, verify, backroll and maintain 3-2-1 backups then <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SelfHosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfHosting</span></a> is the more efficient move.</li></ul><p>That being said I do acknowledge the convenience that solutions like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Tarsnap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tarsnap</span></a> deliver and I think <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@cperciva" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cperciva</span></a></span> deserves the revenue he makes with this convenient, fully encrypted <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/backup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>backup</span></a> solution that makes <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AmazonGlacier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmazonGlacier</span></a> easy to use...</p><p><a href="https://www.tarsnap.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">tarsnap.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><ul><li>I just can't use it for legal reasons neither he nor anyone else can fix - not even <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> - as per <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CloudAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CloudAct</span></a>. </li></ul><p>Needless to say it did inspire me to consider trying my hand on building something similar but without being locked to Amazon:</p><ul><li>OFC I can't and won't look at tarsnap's code since it's only <em><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SourceAvailable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SourceAvailable</span></a></em>, not <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FLOSS</span></a> and I do want it to be different and not copyright infringement!</li></ul>