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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Previous HN discussion of SpiderOak's (very different) approach to this same topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640074
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
SpiderOak handles most of the above. So does Tarsnap, aside from the sharing. Neither do key recovery for lost passwords, as that defeats the entire purpose of having the key to begin with.
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Amazon's pricing here is the same as SpiderOak's, and Dropbox has been competing with us in the backup/sync space this whole time. The industry has seen many of these these simple "cloud drive" products fail. I think the first was Xdrive.
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Switched to dvorak in my early twenties. Not really faster, but much more comfortable.
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Medicine is a fine way to treat things like infectious disease, but our western use of it is particularly useless (and often harmful) at treating long term "lifestyle diseases" -- stuff like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Prevention
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Quite impossible, since TCP ports don't go past 65535. :)
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
...and outside seating, since it's gorgeous today.
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
http://www.pizzabellakc.com/ http://maps.google.pl/maps/place?cid=2586352277299496039
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
I'll drop by... Pizza Bella is yummy.
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
FYI, the reason the big backup providers don't do "standard protocol access" is because it's actually far more expensive to provide. Take for example, the case of backing up a folder full of files using rsync over ssh, vs. using the SpiderO
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Apologies for the support delay. As mentioned above, we have seen overwhelming growth lately and are training support staff to scale up right now. Feel free to mail me directly if I can help. For inotify, the biggest limitation we run into
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
FYI -- The backblaze storage hardware is similar (at least conceptually--specifics differ greatly) to what all the big self hosted backup companies (Mozy, Carbonite, SpiderOak, etc.) do. Custom hardware and data center storage software is
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Varnish sits in front of the backend, responding to all requests that it has cached content for directly, without bothering the backend at all. It lives higher in the stack than than pagespeed or memcache, and not limited by the backend's
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
I think the only way PG would try this is if it's clear that javascript, client side hacks, etc are not required -- and I think that's the case. Aside from the header, there's only a relatively small number of variations for any given conte
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Since no one has mentioned it yet - Varnish-cache.org, written by a FreeBSD kernel hacker, has a very nice feature, in that it will put all overlapping concurrent requests for the same cacheable resource "on hold", only fetch that resource
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
At SpiderOak we get a 3x replication equivalent for about 35% overhead, using Reed-Solomon at the cluster level (on top of RAID6 at the machine level.) Not nearly as expensive as outright replication. Agree those SATA port multiplies are w
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
I was really unimpressed with Apple's Time Machine. Did you know it only goes backwards?! Lame. (Humor aside, it's actually quite well engineered.)
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
..and, by the way, there's an automatic 50% discount for anyone with a .edu (or similar) email address. :)
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Will be there.
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
FYI -- There are cloud storage services that focus less on low-latency and more on affordable reliability/throughput for archival class data. https://spideroak.com/diy/ (disclosure: I cofounded SpiderOak in 2007)
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
I recommend finding a personal trainer who's company and conversation you enjoy and look forward to. They're hard to find, but they do exist. The last time I had to move, out of everything, I was the most reluctant about leaving my gym/tr
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Wow, sorry I missed a KC meetup. Hope to make it next time. :)
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
Splendid idea. The Foundry / McCoy's in Westport? I'll be happy to meet just about anywhere though.
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
They are busy making money! My conclusion was that it was easier to become such a person, rather than try to find and hire one. Or, better yet, change the product to better fit with the market, making the entire process easier.
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
The most comically tragic "failure to effectively test restore" story I'm aware of is from one of our customers, who previously had their own home grown backup system with encrypted archive shipping offsite, monthly test restores, and so on
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
You may like SpiderOak's white label program: https://spideroak.com/partners/ (I cofounded SpiderOak in 2006.)
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
FYI You could run either tarsnap or SpiderOak directly on the server for a prompt offsite backup. Both have excellent support for archiving many versions of a file, with de-duplication of the version stream, and no limits on how many histo
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
It's really not that difficult to get certified for export as a mass market crypto product. We did this for SpiderOak years ago. Took about an hour and I think a small fee. Also requires sending the NSA the source code, but we're shipping
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A True Story about iPods, Audio Books, Swat Teams, and Design of Technology(spideroak.com)
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by rarrrrrr 16y ago
I recommend donating to some of the smaller, longer term investment organizations tackling fundamental problems instead of trying to react to the latest crisis. I've been impressed with water.org's micro finance based approach. It also hel

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