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I've seen many of my clients set up their own backup systems and have those fail at the worst times. Last month a large client of ours called our managed suppor
by XERQ 12y ago
I've seen many of my clients set up their own backup systems and have those fail at the worst times. Last month a large client of ours called our managed support team at 3AM saying they hired the wrong developer who completely trashed their database and hosed their entire application. They had their own backup system in place and it silently failed, but luckily they ordered our internal backup solution as a secondary. We were able to get them restored in 5 minutes, if they didn't have our solution in place they would've had to spend weeks fixing what the developer broke.
Current Linux backup solutions are not made for humans. Have a look at the mondorescue guide[1], nobody is going to read that and comprehend it with full mastery, meaning you're leaving yourself open to losing data. VPS providers offer backups that are usually in the same datacenter, which means you're SOL if there's a disaster. Those same providers also don't allow you to restore single files/directories from snapshots, usually you have to launch a new instance or revert everything back to snapshot.
We ended up creating a simple Linux backup solution[2] that's as simple as copying and pasting a single command to get installed, notifies you if your backups aren't running, handles snapshots, and is secure. Restoring your data is a single command away, so you can focus instead on building your startup rocketship. Our mission is to make data loss a thing of the past.
[1] http://www.mondorescue.org/docs/mondorescue-howto.html http://www.mondorescue.org/docs/mondorescue-howto.html
[2] https://jarvys.io https://jarvys.io
- joepvd 12y agoNot trying to imply that it is trivial to set up a reliable backup and restore mechanism, but the link you provide hardly provides an example of the current state. Never heard of modoresque, but the documentation has not been updated since 2006.
- druiid 12y agoI've never heard of Mondo, but there are well maintained and widely used backup projects such as Bacula (http://www.bacula.org http://www.bacula.org). It's certainly not point-and-click or paste-and-run, but it's free and allows you to keep data in house, which for 'hosted' backup solutions is always a great concern of mine. Many hacks in the past I've read about were from the backup situation that people had implemented (and was used as a backdoor in one way or another, be it via code/key leakage or simply allowing connections from the backup solution).
- leephillips 12y agoThis comment is identical to your comment from 18 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8670717 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8670717 You're far from the only one using HN to advertise your business, but maybe you should try to mix it up a little. 18 days ago was in November. Did a client call you a 3 am in October and also in November?
- virmundi 12y agoOut of curiosity, do you have an automated system that checks for duplicate comments? Did you just happen to read it before and remember it?
- otoburb 12y agoThe third and most likely option is looking up the poster's HN profile and checking out historical comments made by the poster.
- virmundi 12y agoI guess the idea of looking a person's profile is foreign to me. Perhaps I should get into the flow of doing that.
- lancemjoseph 12y agoI also read through the comment thinking.. deja vu? But yeah it was a copy paste from three weeks ago.
- leephillips 12y agoNo automation. I had a feeling I'd read it before, so I checked the profile.
- XERQ 12y agoHonestly didn't expect this submission to go anywhere, and only had a minute before jumping on a call :-)
- thaumaturgy 12y agoYou built a beautiful site, but I wish you provided a little more technical information. For the Linux market, you can probably wade fully into the details of how the backups work (rsync, something else?), whether the client process is going to want root (I would assume so), how the "secure" part of your service works, etc. Or maybe it's there and I'm too dumb to find it. :-)