<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@froztbyte" class="u-url mention">@<span>froztbyte</span></a></span> i probably do and i have the syntax for it, but i&#39;m going to do this after i make sure everything&#39;s working correctly. also so long as my backups stay under $5 monthly (seems likely with restic) i don&#39;t even care that much</p><p>tarsnap doesn&#39;t even *have* a first-party time-tiering retention option. can&#39;t believe i spent so much of my life tolerating that</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> also add a regular `restic forget` (and occasional gc); there’s also a parameter for time-tiering retention. can pull example for you in a bit if you want?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@swiftcoder" class="u-url mention">@<span>swiftcoder</span></a></span> ye, aws makes it hard and annoying because it’s better for their bottom line</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> Thanks for this! I was trying to figure out which sessions I might be able to take this summer, but alas, I think my weekends and PTO are spoke for.</p><p>I was especially excited about Ruckus</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@swiftcoder" class="u-url mention">@<span>swiftcoder</span></a></span> i was looking at the web console</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> yeah, it’s definitely easier to setup from the web console than via the command line</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@swiftcoder" class="u-url mention">@<span>swiftcoder</span></a></span> i looked at the syntax for that and decided i want to claw my eyes out instead</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@ppxl" class="u-url mention">@<span>ppxl</span></a></span> rustic?</p><p>re: speed, tarsnap is so horrifically slow that just about anything would be an improvement</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> may want to put a lifecycle policy on the bucket to delete stale versions after 3 months, or such. Otherwise actual deletions won’t ever reclaim storage space</p>