On 03/09/14 17:58, Tim Anderson wrote: > On 10/03/14 10:08, Colin Percival wrote: >> The answer is that if I get hit by a bus tomorrow, Tarsnap will probably not >> survive indefinitely without me. That said, the service is very stable on a >> day-to-day basis, so if anything happens to me it is very likely that people >> will have plenty of time to download their data before Tarsnap shuts down. > How will we know if you get hit by a bus? Do you have any system set up to > inform us of your demise so we can get all our data off.
Yes. > Also, what if everyone tries to access their data all at once? I doubt that would happen, since as far as I know most people use Tarsnap (of data they have stored elsewhere) rather than archival. But it wouldn't be a problem. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
