Online backups for the truly paranoid
Tarsnap is a secure online backup service for BSD, Linux, OS X, Solaris, Cygwin, and can probably be compiled on 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) |
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| 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. Due to Tarsnap's strong encryption, there is no way for the Tarsnap service to know how much data you had before it was compressed.
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
Tarsnap 1.0.27 released - June 27, 2010
Version 1.0.27 of the Tarsnap client code is now available for download. This version brings several new features, including the ability to pass multiple -f <archive> options to tarsnap -d and tarsnap --print-stats, automatic exclusion of synthetic filesystems, and the ability to regenerated cached state without requiring delete access keys.
Tarsnap 1.0.26 released - December 24, 2009
Version 1.0.26 of the Tarsnap client code has been released. This version brings improvements to the Tarsnap client-server protocol in order to avoid dropped connections (and associated warning messages), a bug fix to the --maxbw-rate family of command-line options, improved documentation, and other minor changes.