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by lordgilman 1051 days ago
FWIW Tarsnap was launched in 2008, the initial RDS for MySQL was launched in 2009.
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zetalyrae 1051 days ago
You can always self-host Postgres.
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masfuerte 1051 days ago
The VM crashed, corrupting the file system. This could have made a Postgres database unrecoverable. For rock solid reliability you need more than a database instance.
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zetalyrae 1051 days ago
Make two of them.
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masfuerte 1051 days ago
Keeping some kind of Postgres cluster running for over a decade seems like a lot of work. tarsnap seems to require roughly no maintenance.
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