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by glebm 3336 days ago
I've played around with it. These CPUs are fast enough (certainly faster than Heroku and the like). However, ScaleWay still does not provide automated disk backups, and manual snapshot requires you to shut down the instance first, so I went back to Linode.
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kogepathic 3336 days ago
> However, ScaleWay still does not provide automated disk backups

Does anyone offer that at this price point? Scaleway is ridiculously cheap. Lack of backups is par for the course for these low cost providers.

> and manual snapshot requires you to shut down the instance first

Yup, that does suck, and I wish they would fix it.

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cubano 3336 days ago
Is running a simple rsync cron backup really that tough?

Sure I understand it's suboptimal but I've always had pretty good luck with it.

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naasking 3336 days ago
> Sure I understand it's suboptimal but I've always had pretty good luck with it.

"Luck" is not a feature of a backup system.

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jameskegel 3336 days ago
I believe Digital Ocean offers this type of backup. I know I'm paying for something backup related to that effect.
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patrickg_zill 3336 days ago
is ZFS available for Linux on ARM? You can take snapshots and use zfs send/receive for zero downtime , consistent backups.
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drdaeman 3336 days ago
I'm not sure about ZFS (and it could be complicated - there is a problem with Scaleway servers that they use their own kernels so you have to mess with kexec if you want to run your own), but one can certainly do the same with LVM or even "bare" device-mapper.

It's non-trivial, though. At least if one haven't dealt with that stuff before.

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cyberpunk 3336 days ago
It's apparently supported (so says zfsonlinux.org) but I wouldn't use it for anything you care about without ECC ram -- I'm willing to bet these have cheapo controllers which don't support that though..
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taneliv 3336 days ago
Well, I would be more hesitant to use some other file system without ECC RAM than ZFS. However, "these cloud servers are backed by Cavium ThunderX SoCs, high end processors designed for the cloud, and DDR4 ECC memory," says the article. Nevertheless, I would not consider ZFS on these to be "production ready" except for very small values of "ready."
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