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TarSnap usecases



Hi there,

I'm contemplating writing a GUI frontend for TarSnap in Java. However, before pursuing that I'd like to get an idea on a variety of different uses, since I can only speak of my own. If anyone would be so inclined as to share with me (or the rest of us) what you're using TarSnap for, in enough detail that I can draw up proper usecases for it, that would be greatly appreciated!

To get the ball rolling, here is what I myself am using TarSnap for at the moment:

I back up University school work on a daily basis through a shell script that appropriately names the archive, such that I get archives that look like so:

20091118-200001-daily-diku
20091126-200001-daily-diku
20091110-214801-weekly-diku
20091117-200001-weekly-diku
20091122-200001-daily-diku

That is, YEARMMDD-HHMMSS-daily/weekly/monthly-archive_name

Similarly, for a workplace I back up their email and calendar folders on 15 different laptops with the same shell script, named in the same way.

Options used when creating archives are -H -v --humanize-numbers --lowmem --print-stats for decently readable logged info.

Beyond supplying usecases, if you have any thoughts on the general idea of a TarSnap GUI it would be nice to hear so that I can take it into consideration :) 

Cheers,
Martin Grünbaum