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Renaming fopen64 to intercept library calls feels like a brittle hack masquerading as "sandboxing." Why not just upstream this hardware support to nvtop instead of fragmenting the …

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That's a fair point, and it's a known challenge with file-based backups on systems like Postgres. That said, some backup systems implement chunk-level deduplication and content-add…

Thank you for mentioning it (Plakar here). We are doing our best to complete existing solutions :)

Time to short Nvidia ?

Great insights! Has anyone here switched to a SaaS runner and seen real gains in speed or reliability?

I read the poem three times and still can’t decide if it’s about a cat or a cat about cats.

Yes, both ptar and plakar. If you want to read more about the internal: https://www.plakar.io/posts/2025-04-29/kloset-the-immutable-...

That’s basically one of the reasons that led us to build Plakar.

S3 buckets can just vanish for lots of reasons. With AWS’s shared-responsibility model, you’re the one who has to back up and protect your data not AWS.

AWS Backup can get really pricey since you pay GB-month for every single restore point. Plakar only charges once for the initial backup and then for the small deltas on whatever ch…

Yes Plakar works much like Restic and Kopia: it takes content-addressed, encrypted and deduplicated snapshots and offers efficient incremental backups via a simple CLI. Under the h…

But it works only for Windows, right?

Not exactly, if WIM is a complete snapshot of a Windows disk ready to be restored on an identical machine, .ptar is a self-contained capsule holding successive, encrypted, deduplic…