Tarsnap is a secure online backup service for UNIX-like operating systems, including BSD, Linux, and OS X.

Tarsnap encrypts data, and then stores it on Amazon S3.

The service is designed for efficiency, only uploading and storing data that has directly changed since the last backup.

[5] It was developed and debugged, with input solicited from bug bounty hunters, to try to find vulnerabilities.

[7] The document of the presentation "From bsdtar to tarsnap"[8] by Percival from EuroBSD-Con 2013 contains "all kinds of detail on exactly how the algorithms work, how deduplication is managed ... the innards of how Tarsnap works"[9]