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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

[2] https://jarvys.io

Soon we will have it where you can simply select any other server from your account to restore from it to any other server on your account, and the docs will be updated with how to do it.

With that said, we do provide the ability to hook your own scripts and commands into the backup process itself, for instance backing up MySQL you'd just put in the mysqldump command (with relevant DB and user/pass info) into the hook script uncleverly titlted 'run-before-backup.sh' in the config directory.

I personally don't have any experience with Redmine. Application-specific backups are outside the scope of our initial launch, but as we get more user feedback we'll be able to build plugins that integrate with specific applications. In the mean time, I'd both: 1) pester the developers to provide a simple backup solution for Redmine, and 2) look into either putting it on a VM that you can snapshot, or use something like ZFS snapshots and send/receive it to a remote location.

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.

[plug] 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. [/plug]

[1] http://www.mondorescue.org/docs/mondorescue-howto.html

[2] https://jarvys.io

That's a catastrophe waiting to happen. EMC recommends no more than 8 disks in a parity array group (ZFS recommends no more than 9), specifically because larger arrays cause longer rebuilds, which are more likely to trigger a URE, in which case your SOL.

Hacker Web IMO is perfect for browsing on mobile devices, whereas TheNews is great for desktop viewing.

[1] http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ [2] http://thenews.im/

Glancing at your submission list, I didn't see your blog post. Would you mind sharing it?

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

Can anyone recommend a monitoring tool that can check from many locations at the same time? We're using nagios and a few other homebrew solutions from 3 different datacenters, but none of them picked this up.

The kudos concept is different, the fact that people are writing him emails and tweets about decrementing their counts for a meaningless number is petty.

The "Elitism" invite-only being such an issue is silly. HN and reddit started with small groups of people that weren't connected to a larger social sphere, so they slowly grew organically with the content they wanted. Google does invite-only for their projects (Gmail, G+, etc) as a way to both fix issues early with minimal user impact and to scale properly. Medium did the same thing. To say the dcurtis should've made it open for everyone at the beginning is disingenuous. Curating a small community and taking feedback from them, along with having readers connected to a larger social sphere (HN) means it can grow slowly while focusing on its core users, especially as a side project.

Appreciate what others are doing, even if you don't agree with it. Don't follow the herd. Just because Medium opened its gates doesn't mean they're the end-all be-all of blogging. I made a svbtle account because I want to see how they evolve and capture what Medium is missing.

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Portage is brilliant, and *BSD would benefit heavily from it, but at the time it just wasn't production ready. Too bad the GentooBSD project has been dead in the water for a few years.

I wrote a guide years ago on setting up a Stage 1 install[1], it's heavily out of date but may provide an insight into how things on the Gentoo side have changed over the years.

[1] http://matt.xerq.net/gentoo_stage1.txt

Please try to refrain from ad hominem attacks as it doesn't help in proving your point.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

  When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Their current site: http://flashping.com/en/

Website archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20100108103341/http://www.flashpi...

I'm a student finishing up my computer science and piano performance degrees at Chapman University in Orange, California. I started SSD Nodes as a summer project last year, created as a solution to the pain of all the other slow/unsecure/unreliable hosts out there.

SSD Nodes was accepted into the Startup Incubator's first class a few months ago at Chapman. I've been working with absolutely wonderful entrepreneurs that have been helping me guide my vision. Being on HN for the past ~6 months have been invaluable.

I would love to hear your thoughts. If you want to contact me directly, my email is in my profile.

http://twitter.com/MattGConnor

8 x 3.4GHz E3-1270

11x 200GB SLC SATA III SSD (2TB @ RAID 5)

32GB DDR3 ECC RAM

6000GB Outbound BW

2 x 1 GigE Public/Private Interfaces

$2369 Monthly

That's just month-to-month, if a longer term were purchased we could give a discount depending on the term.

EDIT: Downvoted? Please offer your point of view.

EDIT2: Sample pricing offered in comment below.

The most likely reason for not slicing these systems up to smaller instances is they want to maintain consistent, high performance I/O.

The only problem with reserving that instance for 3 years is that better hardware always comes along, especially with the cost of SSDs coming down significantly every year. Usually if you're in the big-data space, your hardware is likely retired after 24 months (12 months if you're well funded) so locking yourself in for 36 months might be a bad investment.

I am the founder of SSD Nodes, Inc. (http://www.ssdnodes.com) and we offer lower-sized SSD-backed storage in addition to custom cloud and dedicated plans that range from 1-12TB of local SSD storage, at comparable performance. [/plug]