RE: Tarsnap is here to stay.

["Daniel Wilson" <Daniel@TheEwhiteboard.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Anderson [mailto:tim@timando.net] 
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 8:59 PM
To: tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com
Subject: Re: Tarsnap is here to stay.

On 10/03/14 10:08, Colin Percival wrote:
> On 03/09/14 03:46, Arthur Chance wrote:
>> Without wishing to be morbid, I presume you have structures and procedures in
>> place to ensure Tarsnap Backup Inc continues to offer its services indefinitely
>> in case you're kidnapped by aliens or eaten by bears(*)?
> That's a sensible question, although it's usually phrased in terms of getting
> hit by a bus. ;-)
>
> 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. Also, what 
if everyone tries to access their data all at once?


As I understand it, the underlying infrastructure is AWS ... so ... massive availability is already provided. It would be one of the most difficult systems in the world to bring down with an uncoordinated DDOS.

Daniel Wilson