Online backups for the truly paranoid

Tarsnap is a secure online backup service for BSD, Linux, OS X, Minix, Solaris, Cygwin, and probably many other UNIX-like operating systems. The Tarsnap client code provides a flexible and powerful command-line interface which can be used directly or via shell scripts.

At the present time, Tarsnap does not support Windows (except via Cygwin) and does not have a graphical user interface.

Start using Tarsnap now!

With five minutes to download and install Tarsnap and $5 for an initial deposit, you can get started with Tarsnap today and stop worrying about whether your data is safe.

Tarsnap pricing

Tarsnap works on a prepaid model based on actual usage.

Storage: 300 picodollars / byte-month
($0.30 / GB-month)
Bandwidth: 300 picodollars / byte
($0.30 / GB)

These prices are based on the actual number of bytes stored and the actual number of bytes of bandwidth used — after compression and data deduplication. This makes Tarsnap ideal for daily backups — many users have hundreds of archives adding up to several terabytes, but pay less than $10/month.

Tarsnap has no fixed or minimum monthly fees!

Tarsnap is billed only based on actual usage — if you only store a small amount of data, a $5 payment might last you for years.

Tarsnap news

Open Source sponsorship - April 27, 2013

Tarsnap Backup Inc. is proud to be a 2013 Bronze Sponsor of the FreeBSD Foundation and a Silver Sponsor of BSDCan 2013.

Tarsnap 1.0.33 released - August 10, 2012

Version 1.0.33 of the Tarsnap client code is now available for download. This version brings a 10-30% reduction in memory usage, a significant speedup in "fsck" and multi-archive deletes, and some bug fixes.

FreeBSD Foundation sponsorship - May 12, 2012

Tarsnap Backup Inc. is proud to be a 2012 Bronze Sponsor of the FreeBSD Foundation.

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