[ikusalic]

Tarsnap is really great service. It's obviously targeted at tech people, but if you are one, just check it out. I do not feel the need for any wrappers as the CLI is quite nice, but your mileage may vary.

What I'm backing up are a few true crypt containers. Not out of paranoia (well...), but because I use TC anyway to separate different kinds of context (by usage and importance). The nice thing is that incremental backups feature still works great. Compression is not really useful though. Currently I have ~70gb of data, ~20gb being unique.

The service is also priced quite reasonably. Highly recommended.

[ghshephard]

As a newcomer to the tarsnap family (started using a month ago)- I completely agree - I use Dropbox, Super Duper, Arq, Crashplan for various types of backup scenarios - but the tools that I use to snapshot my ultra critical (all Customer content - code, scripts, visio diagrams, network configs, site/RF surveys) 677 MB "customers" folder is tarsnap. It really is as simple as:

   tarsnap -cf customers-2014.05.12 ~/Dropbox/Customers 

Wait for 15 seconds (if there haven't been many changed files) - and I have a snapshot of my files.

Even more tremendously wonderful - I deposited $20.00 a month ago, and I currently have a remaining balance of $19.826571509446676694.

I.E. Tarsnap charges me 0.173428490553323306/month to backup/snapshot all of the content I've created in the previous 2 1/2 years.

(Note - Tarsnap users so many sigifnicant digits, that OS X calc, Excel, and Python all gave me three different answers for 20-19.826571509446676694.

  Calc: 0.17342849055332
  Python: 0.17342849055332366
  Excel: 0.173428490553398

I had to check by hand, and use the Python "decimal" module to get the "correct" answer of 0.173428490553323306.