I did the math and I see your point. I'm also a CrashPlan user.
Right now I'm paying CrashPlan about $60/year. My best guess at Tarsnap costs is about 10x that, $600/year.
Normally I'm a very privacy-conscious person, but that difference does give me pause. I could probably slim down what I do with Crashplan to only personal files rather than the whole disk, but why would I want to do that? The whole point is to "fire and forget", and restore painlessly.
Perhaps Tarsnap makes sense if you're Stripe, with lots of sensitive data to store, easily partitioned from your other data. But if my calculations are correct, probably not if you're an average individual.
Does CrashPlan dedup and compress the data? Also I have to say, tarsnap is so much more lightweight than CrashPlan. If they came out with a nice command line client I would have to reconsider them.
Right now I'm paying CrashPlan about $60/year. My best guess at Tarsnap costs is about 10x that, $600/year.
Normally I'm a very privacy-conscious person, but that difference does give me pause. I could probably slim down what I do with Crashplan to only personal files rather than the whole disk, but why would I want to do that? The whole point is to "fire and forget", and restore painlessly.
Perhaps Tarsnap makes sense if you're Stripe, with lots of sensitive data to store, easily partitioned from your other data. But if my calculations are correct, probably not if you're an average individual.