Re: Tarsnap is here to stay.

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 03/09/14 17:58, Tim Anderson wrote:
> On 10/03/14 10:08, Colin Percival wrote:
>> The answer is that if I get hit by a bus tomorrow, Tarsnap will probably not
>> survive indefinitely without me.  That said, the service is very stable on a
>> day-to-day basis, so if anything happens to me it is very likely that people
>> will have plenty of time to download their data before Tarsnap shuts down.
> How will we know if you get hit by a bus? Do you have any system set up to
> inform us of your demise so we can get all our data off.

Yes.

> Also, what if everyone tries to access their data all at once?

I doubt that would happen, since as far as I know most people use Tarsnap (of
data they have stored elsewhere) rather than archival.  But it wouldn't be a
problem.

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid