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Re: Big initial upload
On 06/28/16 23:33, Gregory Orange wrote:
> 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.
https://www.google.ca/webhp?#q=1+TB+%2F+1+mbps
92.59 days
I'm not sure how you got 36 hours...?
> 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?
Not right now, and unlikely any time soon. Tarsnap just isn't set up for
handling physical storage -- there's a reason I use AWS to abstract away
all that mess!
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Colin Percival
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Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid