Re: Big initial upload

[jerry <jerry@tr2.com>]

Maybe there's a niche here for another small business.  Somebody
with a speedy internet connection could accept thumb drives or
hard disks by mail, and upchuck them into the cloud.

                    - Jerry Kaidor


On 06/29/2016 00:29, Colin Percival wrote:
> 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!