willie
willie
About
- Username
- willie
- Joined
- Visits
- 1,694
- Last Active
- Roles
- Member, OG
- Thanked
- 771
Comments
-
I remember looking into Borg and not pursuing it, but I've forgotten specifics. There was another one (duplicity?) that I tried for a while and found annoying. So now I just use rsync. I will keep trying to figure out alternatives. What I really…
-
The now very ancient article The Tao Of Backup (http://taobackup.com/) is still worth reading. It discusses use cases for backups and strategies for testing. The "surprise" ending is that it's a sales pitch for backup software. I don't …
-
(Quote) I thought it was the other way around, but maybe I'm mistaken.
-
Old strategy was a towers of hanoi backup pattern. IIRC that was 3 or so levels of incremental. Monthly full dump, weekly and daily incremental. By making each incremental to the 2nd-most-recent higher level dump instead of the most recent, you c…
-
It might help if you describe what actual problem you are trying to solve. Lots of people use databases for things that can be done with old fashioned serial i/o and sorting, or that kind of thing. Particularly if this is an offline application, y…
-
I haven't managed to get one yet, but imho it is attractive for north america. The 100mbps is annoying but not that big a deal. Should I figure these are all out of stock? I tried to login and order when I saw the post a few days ago, but there …
-
Is Chia still a thing? What are you doing really? What kind of server are you going to do this on without root access? If you're not seeking a lot, HDD's intended for this sort of use (surveillance drives made to record video 24/7) might be a goo…
-
At the moment I don't know of any that I don't hate. I mostly just use rsync and have vague thoughts about writing something myself, but don't have a really clear idea of what I'd want it to do. I wish there were better backup hardware (tape drive…
-
(Quote) That was the idea of CEPH backed VPS but the performance hit is significant. It was interesting to hear that Hetzner has deprecated it now.
-
I have generally found dedicated servers to have less random downtime than VPS of any sort. VPS operators are always rebooting the host node for something, etc. So for your purposes, maybe try a small Kimsufi.
-
OVH used to have CEPH backed VPS (auto migration in case something happens to your host node) but I don't know if they have that by now. Maybe on the "public cloud" line. Hetzner has it in EU but for now not in US. Maybe that will arriv…
-
Is it EU citizen, or resident? I have a friend with an Irish passport who currently lives in the US. Could she get this? Don't know if she'd want it, but it's an idea.
-
Ah ok $1 is better. I'll check the client area. But, my sites have such low traffic that even $1 is probably more than my real usage. Also I wonder if Bunny could feasibly offer something like cloudflare workers someday. I've never used them but…
-
I guess check in your client area? I think mine has monthly minimums. That's one reason I haven't used it so far. If I use even a tiny amount I get charged $10 for that month. Gotta say that is annoying and it would be great if they got rid of t…
-
All nodes currently in Dallas? There was a thread a while back about a new location so I'm wondering if you've picked one yet. Will new Dallas orders get the faster disks?
-
(Quote) Katie, yeah, I understand how difficult that would be since it would vastly increase the amount of data center space you'd need, among other things. And it doesn't seem likely that you can keep the same costs. Storage servers, either somet…
-
That the don't bother with Intel in new deployments any more tells us something about Intel, lol.
-
(Quote) You might be looking at the DE prices, which include 18% VAT. Make sure to select your country at the top. If USA there is no VAT.
-
Woo hoo! Will you have dedicated servers or at least StorageBox in Virginia? The main trouble with cloud servers is that they are SSD-only including the attached block storage. I need around 5TB of mostly-cold storage these days, so SSD gets expe…
-
(Quote) I have not yet begun to insane!
-
There's tons of benchmarks out there and apparently the thermals aren't as bad as I expected: https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/10/29/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w-mini-review-benchmarks-and-thermal-performance/
-
The zero series never had ethernet, which is ok, it's a tiny embedded whatever. More scary is the original zero used a 1 or maybe it was 1.5 amp adapter and the zero 2 uses 2.5 amps. Overheating etc. I will stay with the original if possible.
-
Per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29022953 from Jeff Geerling who has been testing it for a few weeks : (Quote)
-
(Quote) With a 100mbit network port that could be painful, and you're also at the price level of a Hetzner auction server with 4 cores and 2x 3tb drives. The KS's would be more attractive if they had gbit LAN ports even if the internet bandwith was…