<p>i think tarsnap has played a big part in why i take the absolute minimum amount of backups </p><p>every operation is so profoundly miserable.</p><p>want to list backups you have? wait for half a hour, get an unsorted list of names.</p><p>want to clear out old ones? you gotta write a shell script that operates on that list of backups. deleting an old deduplicated snapshot takes *forever*. </p><p>want to do a restore for a test? wait for an eternity for it to build up a "cache" whatever that means</p>