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I'm not sure I can justify a 25% (an additional $5/mo on top of the standard $19.99) premium on my linode 360 when I can do manual weekly backups. Granted, thi

• abstractbill 16y ago
  I can totally justify it. I run a bunch of side projects on a $20 Linode server and have always felt bad for not having any backups at all, but not bad enough to spend any of my incredibly limited free time doing something about it. Now I get to just throw $5/month at the problem.
• alextgordon 16y ago
  But if you're using the linode for business, the longer you're down the more money you could be losing. If these backups mean your server can be up again faster then it's totally worth the money. Plus you can never have enough backups.
• btmorex 16y ago
  I just do a nightly rsync. It doesn't protect against a certain class of problems (like being hacked, which I'm not worried about since I'm a small fish and I actually update my systems). And, yeah, $5 per month seems kind of steep for a linode 360. I'd probably sign up if it was $1-2.
• keyist 16y ago
  Backups are very useful for sysadmin experimentation. Assuming you already do your own backups anyway, you can backup a node, upgrade/install certain packages, do quick tests to make sure everything's working. If there are issues just restore your backup without having to provision and restore your data. I have accounts on both Slicehost and Linode and until now I could be more cavalier with the former because of the undo button backups provide.