Re: Restore data transfer rate

[Mads Sülau Jørgensen <mads@sulau.dk>]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
>> I'm on a very fast university connection, but invariably only see speeds of between 50 and 80 kB/s. I'm wondering if this is normal.
>
> Judging by your email address, I presume you're in the UK... the speeds you're
> seeing are a bit slower than typical but not dramatically so.  If you extract
> archives (or different parts of the same archive, for that matter) in parallel
> you should be able to get more bits through.

If you need to get a lot of data out of tarsnap fast, and have a fair
amount of latency to the tarsnap server, I've found it a viable
solution to boot an EC2 instance, and use it to restore your data from
tarsnap, then copy it from there to where ever you need it.

You would of course have to trust Amazon with your unencrypted data
and your encryption keys.

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Mads Sülau Jørgensen
mads@sulau.dk