I feel like a lot of this article really should be about how bad tarsnap is. Defaults to no progress updates, has no builtin multithreading, has failures around large files, can't backup sym links properly, no builtin way to detect an in progress restore so you have to manually tell it to resume, etc.
If tarsnap didn't have a bad UX, this entire article would have instead been 'the time I forgot to backup my .env file', none of the other issues would have occurred.
If tarsnap didn't have a bad UX, this entire article would have instead been 'the time I forgot to backup my .env file', none of the other issues would have occurred.