Show HN: Snapshotly – Automated DigitalOcean Backups
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Show HN: Snapshotly – Automated DigitalOcean Backups
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Re: Show HN: Snapshotly – Automated DigitalOcean Backups
#2Interesting product. My DigitalOcean droplets have only weekly backups. I will give it a try for creating daily snapshots.
Re: Show HN: Snapshotly – Automated DigitalOcean Backups
#3Does a snapshot mean that you're doing native DO snapshots? The throughput for these is terrible (1-4gb/min) and also had performance implications in our past tests.
Re: Show HN: Snapshotly – Automated DigitalOcean Backups
#4You’re using the terms backup and snapshot interchangeably but they are not the same thing. Snapshots are images and require your droplet to be powered down. Which service are you providing?
Re: Show HN: Snapshotly – Automated DigitalOcean Backups
#5You’re using the terms backup and snapshot interchangeably but they are not the same thing. Snapshots are images and require your droplet to be powered down. Which service are you providing?
Snapshots are used because they persist even after the droplet/volume was deleted and you pay per GB/month instead of 20% of the droplet price.
For volumes, you only have the option to create a snapshot.
The "backups" term is used mostly for SEO purposes. When a user wants backups for his droplet, probably for him is not important if the backup is considered by DO a "backup" or a "snapshot".
The DigitalOcean backups are also images at the core because the point-in-time image is created in the same way.
From the DO docs:
1. A snapshot of the live system is taken, creating a crash-consistent, point-in-time image.
2. The snapshot is backed up off-disk.
3. The snapshot is deleted once the backup is complete.
Regarding the recommendation of powering of the droplet, in the future maybe there will be an option to choose if you want this before taking the snapshot. This will be useful for droplets with write-intensive operations.
Thanks, Alex
Re: Show HN: Snapshotly – Automated DigitalOcean Backups
#6Does a snapshot mean that you're doing native DO snapshots? The throughput for these is terrible (1-4gb/min) and also had performance implications in our past tests.
Yes, native DO snapshots are used. I tested with droplets up to 100 GB in occupied disk size and the snapshot required over 1 hour to be ready. For volumes, the time is lower.
Unfortunately, this is a limitation for most of the cloud providers.
Re: Show HN: Snapshotly – Automated DigitalOcean Backups
#7Interesting product. My DigitalOcean droplets have only weekly backups. I will give it a try for creating daily snapshots.
Let me know if I can help with anything. Thanks!
Re: Show HN: Snapshotly – Automated DigitalOcean Backups
#8Where are the "backups" being stored? Are they just snapshots sitting in my DO account? If so, I can just do this by myself with the DO API... if not, how are you downloading the snapshots? I don't recall if DO allows this right now.
Re: Show HN: Snapshotly – Automated DigitalOcean Backups
#9Looks like you've just ripped off snapshooter.io tbh.
Re: Show HN: Snapshotly – Automated DigitalOcean Backups
#10Is this essentially $15 / month to press 'Snapshot' in DigitalOcean or am I missing the point here?