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Snapshots vs Backups Explained, And Why You Need Both in Your Life

Jun 27, 2024

It's a common misconception in the hosting industry that snapshots and backups are interchangeable terms. However, this is not the case: snapshots are NOT equal to backups! While both snapshots and backups serve to protect data, they differ in some key ways that are important to understand.

Snapshots vs Backups Explained, And Why You Need Both in Your Life

Four Customers Who Found Out the Hard Way You Need To Backup Your Cloud Data

raindog308

Oct 21, 2023

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To the cloud! It's this magical place where resources are infinite, SLAs are tight, and you never need to back things up because that's all handled by the provider. Right? Well...

Four Customers Who Found Out the Hard Way You Need To Backup Your Cloud Data

How To Configure Proxmox To Automatically Backup Your Virtual Machines Remotely (Proxmox Backup Server Tutorial)

Sir Foxy

Oct 11, 2023

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Does it really matter if your Proxmox server catches on fire if you have a disaster recovery plan and automatically back it up anyways? Your data is precious. Back it up. Here's how...

How To Configure Proxmox To Automatically Backup Your Virtual Machines Remotely (Proxmox Backup Server Tutorial)

An Incredibly Amazing Co-Incidence Of Doubled, Double Disk Failures!

Not_Oles

Jul 12, 2022

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Just recently we were introducing our newer Low Enders to Hacker News ("HN"). Now, suddenly, we have news of a doubled, double disk failure over there at HN. The doubled, double disk failure took HN d...

An Incredibly Amazing Co-Incidence Of Doubled, Double Disk Failures!

BackBlaze B2 with rclone for Effortless Cheap Cloud Backups!

raindog308

Jun 18, 2022

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I've been a fan of BackBlaze's B2 cloud storage service for a long time. The pricing is great and very straightforward: $.005 per GB per month, and $.01 per GB to download. I use B2 for my cloud back...

SmallWeb Suffers "Catastrophic Data Loss" in London

raindog308

Jul 27, 2021

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A user on LowEndTalk reported that shared hosting provider SmallWeb has emailed customers to report that their London shared hosting has suffered a "catastrophic data loss". "Dear friend, At 6:03PM UK...

Incremental Remote Backups Using rsnapshot

raindog308

Apr 17, 2021

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There's an old adage about backups: There are two kinds of people: people who've never lost data, and people who'll never lose data again. If you've ever experienced data loss, you will instantly beco...

Incremental Remote Backups Using rsnapshot

VPS Ace - $18/Year 128MB OpenVZ SSD-Cached VPS in Buffalo, NY

Liam

Jun 27, 2013

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Matt, from VPS Ace, has sent in two offers for LEB readers this time. One is for a $18/Year 128MB VPS, whilst the other is a $7/Month 2GB plan. VPS - VZ-128MB 128MB RAM 128MB vSwap Equal CPU Share 10G...

VPS Ace - $18/Year 128MB OpenVZ SSD-Cached VPS in Buffalo, NY

VPS Ace - $7 2048MB OpenVZ VPS in Buffalo, New York

Liam

May 21, 2013

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Matt, from VPS Ace, has sent in another exclusive offer for LowEndBox readers. This plan normally sells for $20/Month, but with the below coupon you can get it for only $7/Month. VPS - VZ-2048MB 2048M...