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Why do you need Colin alive in order use tarsnap? (God, that's a strange sentence to write. Sorry about that, Colin.)
by oskarth 13y ago
Why do you need Colin alive in order use tarsnap?
(God, that's a strange sentence to write. Sorry about that, Colin.)
- iancarroll 13y agoAssuming the S3 bill is the next day...
- samwillis 13y agoIt runs through servers that he manages (it doesn't talk directly to s3). If those servers are down you can access your backups.
- cperciva 13y agoI don't carry around EC2 servers my backpack. Me getting hit by a bus wouldn't take the servers down immediately.
- vacri 13y agoIf you get hit by a bus, who alerts your users and how? If your users aren't alerted, they may not realise that anything is amiss until AWS freeze your account for non-payment (for example). I can't say that I spend a lot of time keeping up-to-date on the project leaders' obituaries for services I use. I don't imagine I'm unusual in this regard :) Edit: This is just a rhetorical question, not a demand for explanation :) - just saying that being hit by a bus does not automatically mean that users are shifting off your service in 24 hours.
- icebraining 13y agoColin has said he does have a system: http://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-users/msg00849.html http://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-users/msg00849.html