> But really if you want to make it dead simple you can't go wrong with tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/). It's written and maintained by one of the biggest names in the crypto community, the guy who has spawned scrypt, among other things.
Well, patio11 said several years ago that tarsnap should charge a lot more. But even at its current prices, the service is way too expensive for personal backups that run into hundreds of GBs. Personal data may not be significantly amenable to deduplication. So almost all the data will be counted for billing. It may be a good solution for tiny backups that run into a few MBs and/or have a lot of duplicated data across the filesystem that's being backed up.
Well, patio11 said several years ago that tarsnap should charge a lot more. But even at its current prices, the service is way too expensive for personal backups that run into hundreds of GBs. Personal data may not be significantly amenable to deduplication. So almost all the data will be counted for billing. It may be a good solution for tiny backups that run into a few MBs and/or have a lot of duplicated data across the filesystem that's being backed up.