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stavrostoday at 7:04 AM3 repliesview on HN

I have a NAS at home with ZFS snapshots and nightly offsite backups. What's so hard about that, or how is it less durable than your S3 solution?


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throwawayffffastoday at 9:11 AM

Nightly? what happens in between and how many different sites? What happens if your Internet goes down one night? How many parity drives do you have? Will the array survive replacing a drive or will another one die during the sync will you lose data if that happens?

S3 takes replication seriously to a professional level, when you upload a file to S3 the chance of s3 losing it is capped by the chance of a civilization killing asteroid hitting the earth.

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esikichtoday at 8:07 AM

How often are you testing those backups? What kind of monitoring do you have? Do you pay attention to it? Skip any of those and it's just a prayer.

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bob1029today at 7:05 AM

How much do you pay for offsite backups? How durable are they?

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