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Re: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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Post by sdwisely »

dsr_ wrote: post #23

My key objection is that it doesn't offer any additional value: if you are the sort of customer who would do this, you are also the sort of customer who would implement the same chain of commands to backup to a virtual machine that you owned, eliminating the attractiveness of baxx.dev as a aggregated target. What additional value can you add?

it's not in the same place as the rest of my data is the feature to me.

If you can do it at a price competitive to what I can buy storage (and everything that comes along with housing it) and worry about it then it's one of the few things I'm happy enough to have a managed service for.

edit for a bit more context: I do a lot of video work so my storage needs are constantly growing.

Re: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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Post by fao_ »

ebg13 wrote: post #52
isostatic wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Also, in English the currency marker goes to the left of the number. But in the majority of european countries where they use euros, the symbol is placed to the right

That is only correct when writing in a language other than English. Doing it in English is a mistake transferred from doing it in other languages. http://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-370303.htm#position

I don't see how you can find language prescriptivism as a tenable position in this day and age

Re: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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Post by garettmd »

stavros wrote: post #67
bloopernova wrote: post #28

(Alternative product recommendation, please downvote/remove if you feel that isn't appropriate) For Unix/Linux backups, may I suggest Borg Backup? It encrypts and does dedupe astonishingly well. It also works over SSH incredibly fast, and restores are via a mounted FUSE filesystem so they're easy to pick and choose what you need. It prunes really well too, and is a single executable so it's easy to distribute via Ans…

Borg is hands-down the best backup utility I've used. I also use Borgmatic for some added niceties around checks/notifications/etc.

Does anyone know how it compares to Restic? That's what I've been using and have been pretty pleased. It seems like the main difference is that restic supports integrations with other services, whereas Borg seems uses SSH for its connections

Re: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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Post by edoo »

For my home directory/active data I use 'rdiff-backup' to keep 7 days of hourly snapshots. If I screw anything up I never lose more than an hour. My bulk data gets a snapshot every 3 days due to the size/time. All that data is already on raid1 but the extra filesystem level backup will protect from any low level disk hosings. I mirror that backup drive weekly and keep an extra copy off site. If I'm super paranoid about losing something I'll also save it with 'duplicity' to S3, although I also like remote mounting an AWS volume and using it with 'EncFS'.

If I'm going anywhere with my laptop and want access to my data faster than internet speeds I'll preload everything with 'unison' onto the laptop and temporarily have my own Dropbox clone while mobile.

Using those open source tools lets me do basically the same thing as these services while keeping full control of my data.

Re: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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Post by egoisticalgoat »

mruts wrote: post #53
asterix_pano wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Free school, healthcare and nice infrastructures have a cost..

Too bad that cost is levied on people who don’t even need or want those services. The rich, childless, houseless, and single are subsidizing services for everyone else regardless of whether they personally derive any benefit. If that doesn’t strike you as unfair I’m not sure what would.

Unfair to me are situations where people die because they are unable to pay for their own needs like food and healthcare. I gladly pay 50% of my income for basic infrastructure, healthcare and welfare for everyone, and i still have more than enough money at the end of the month after all expenses like rent, food, entertainment, etc.

Re: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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Post by nikeee »

ebg13 wrote: post #52
isostatic wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Also, in English the currency marker goes to the left of the number. But in the majority of european countries where they use euros, the symbol is placed to the right

That is only correct when writing in a language other than English. Doing it in English is a mistake transferred from doing it in other languages. http://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-370303.htm#position

The link seems broken.

Re: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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Post by marceloneil »

garettmd wrote: post #73
stavros wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Borg is hands-down the best backup utility I've used. I also use Borgmatic for some added niceties around checks/notifications/etc.

Does anyone know how it compares to Restic? That's what I've been using and have been pretty pleased. It seems like the main difference is that restic supports integrations with other services, whereas Borg seems uses SSH for its connections

Borg is also big on deduplication

Re: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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Post by merb »

zulgan wrote: post #44
ebg13 wrote: post #22

> Trial 1 Month 0.1E > Subscription: 5E per Month > ... > I decided to charge 5$ (0.1$ trial) So which is it? $ or E? And is E supposed to be €? Also, in English the currency marker goes to the left of the number.

I used E because € does not render on xterm, maybe I should switch it to EUR to remove the confusion also fixed the $ to E in the blog, thanks for the heads up

EUR is the common term, I tought E is some kind of crypto stuff.

Re: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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Post by rsync »

xaybey wrote: post #39

For some reason there's a lot of negativity in this thread. I thought the txt file was really cool, signed up immediately, and have been having a lot of fun with the interface. I don't remember the last time I found registering for a SASS product to be fun .

" I don't remember the last time I found registering for a SASS product to be fun."

Agreed. This:

"The way you register is through ssh, just `ssh register@ui.baxx.dev`"

Is very cool and makes me happy.

Re: Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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Post by StavrosK »

garettmd wrote: post #73
stavros wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Borg is hands-down the best backup utility I've used. I also use Borgmatic for some added niceties around checks/notifications/etc.

Does anyone know how it compares to Restic? That's what I've been using and have been pretty pleased. It seems like the main difference is that restic supports integrations with other services, whereas Borg seems uses SSH for its connections

Restic looks pretty interesting, I wasn't aware of it, thank you. I don't know how Restic can achieve its goals, since AFAIK you need a binary running on the server to diff/check data/verify restores/etc without transferring all that over the network.

Borg runs a binary on the server to do this, that's why it can't easily back up to S3 et al.

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