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Big initial upload



Hi tarsnap folks,

I'm considering tarsnap for our backups. I am mildly concerned about our Internet uplink speed to get the data to tarsnap on a nightly basis, but I am much more concerned about that same uplink for initially getting all of the data uploaded. I've trawled through the mailing list archives a bit (is there a way to search them?) and looked at FAQs etc but I'm not sure exactly how I would handle it.

The numbers are in the order of 1TB of data over Australian ADSL at a maximum of 1 megabit per second uplink. By my reckoning, that might finish in 36 hours, but is more likely to be double that.

Is there a supported way to seed our backups with say an encoded file or files on a USB drive? If not, is it being considered for the future?

Greg.