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Re: Data liberation

To: TM Abel <quailale@yahoo.com>, "tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com" <tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com>
Subject: Re: Data liberation
From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:12:30 -0700
In-reply-to: <1398098145.35502.YahooMailNeo@web142604.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
References: <1398098145.35502.YahooMailNeo@web142604.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

On 04/21/14 09:35, TM Abel wrote:
> Hi, I am considering using Tarsnap but I have some concerns about data
> liberation.  Suppose I have been using Tarsnap for a few years and my
> account looks as follows:
> 
> All archives    16 TB
> (unique data)   25 GB
> 
> Then suppose I wish to cancel my Tarsnap account.  Can I easily recover the
> 25 GB of data I put into it?  Or am I forced to download all 16 TB (which is
> unrealistic on a residential connection) to liberate my data?

There is no way right now to take advantage of the deduplication during
extracts.  Usually people only want to extract one (or part of one) archive,
so this doesn't come up very often.

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

References:
- Data liberation
  - From: TM Abel <quailale@yahoo.com>

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