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		thinkzig on Aug 22, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Interesting statistics from the tarsnap backup ser... I'm not sure if you'd be willing to divulge this information, but just out of pure curiosity I'd be interested in knowing what types of files people are backing up. For instance, across the whole service, what are the top 10 file types that are backed up?

cperciva on Aug 22, 2009 [–]

what are the top 10 file types that are backed up?

I have no clue. If I could figure out what data people were storing, tarsnap wouldn't be a secure backup service, would it?

(For that matter, I don't even know how many files people have archived, or how large they were prior to being compressed.)

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