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

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Post by zulgan »

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 took me good 2 weeks to implement it

* i have actually implemented this kinds of systems multiple times and always failed at the 'who watches the watchers' and usually had broken backups (as in i usually needed them few years after the system is written and by then something is always wrong)

* in the future it will use contextual bandits to probe for broken backups (such as: hey, is file XYZ with size X uploaded at Y weird?) and learn from all the customers triggering the AI flywheel, more backups more data, better contextual bandits, better service, more customers (the idea is to use bandits[or something else with exploration factor] for probability of "good" notification)

so in few words: value = out of the box alerting + nice api + machine learning (not implemented yet) + good price (no cloud)

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

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Post by biztos »

martin_a wrote: post #57
biztos wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How so? I pay exactly 51% in Germany (and I’m ok with that).

You're paying income tax at the highest rate. The calculation in the linked document is about "business taxes". So subtracting just half of the money "because of taxes" is not correct as you'll probably not pay that much in taxes for a business.

Aha, thanks. Sounded to me like extra income... but I was clearly not paying full attention.

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

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Post by recursive »

dmos62 wrote: post #47
escaper wrote: post #34

I get that it's probably "trendy" to say you don't have or need a website but with it being so easy to create a static page, I'm failing to understand why you wouldn't just do that, which is already the bare minimum, if you care about your project and want to sell it?

Why is an HTML document the bare minimum? I absolutely appreciate this far more accessible form, author's dedication to function and disregard for showmanship. Somewhat paradoxically, for a potential client like me, this is way better marketing than any amount of superfluous CSS sugaring or formatting.

I think this text/plain presentation is a form of showmanship.

Put another way, do think there is ever any amount of CSS that is not superfluous?

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

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Post by dmix »

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…

I don't see anything wrong with that bash script. It's well formatted and very simple, there aren't any functions or anything, just a single switch and two conditionals. Not much to optimize.

Simple and explicit is better in shell scripts than being fancy.

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

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Post by zulgan »

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 .

thanks! i have a plan to make a whole midnight commander-like ui to list files, manage tokens and notification rules and etc

started playing with https://github.com/rivo/tview last week, but didnt have much time.

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

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Post by stavros »

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.

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

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Post by bigj0n »

dmos62 wrote: post #47
escaper wrote: post #34

I get that it's probably "trendy" to say you don't have or need a website but with it being so easy to create a static page, I'm failing to understand why you wouldn't just do that, which is already the bare minimum, if you care about your project and want to sell it?

Why is an HTML document the bare minimum? I absolutely appreciate this far more accessible form, author's dedication to function and disregard for showmanship. Somewhat paradoxically, for a potential client like me, this is way better marketing than any amount of superfluous CSS sugaring or formatting.

HTML is the standard form of internet document delivery, that's why it's the bare minimum. It's marginal effort to set up and objectively more accessible than not having a website.

I'm all for reducing complexity, but at this extent your are removing pretty huge pieces of functionality for extremely marginal streamlining.

It's a gimmick

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

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Post by a-priori »

biztos wrote: post #49
martin_a wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If this a calculation is for Germany, it's nonsense.

How so? I pay exactly 51% in Germany (and I’m ok with that).

> As of 1 January 2008, Germany’s corporation tax rate is 15%. Counting both the solidarity surcharge (5.5% of corporation tax) and trade tax (averaging 14% as of 2008), tax on corporations in Germany is just below 30%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Germany#Corporatio...

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

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Post by aaaaaaass »

dmos62 wrote: post #47
escaper wrote: post #34

I get that it's probably "trendy" to say you don't have or need a website but with it being so easy to create a static page, I'm failing to understand why you wouldn't just do that, which is already the bare minimum, if you care about your project and want to sell it?

Why is an HTML document the bare minimum? I absolutely appreciate this far more accessible form, author's dedication to function and disregard for showmanship. Somewhat paradoxically, for a potential client like me, this is way better marketing than any amount of superfluous CSS sugaring or formatting.

it is not accessible. There is no way for a screen reader to know what is what. That is what html is for.
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