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I, as I'm sure a lot of users here, run the gamut of various providers that I trust at different levels. So the answer is: all of the above
I had a dream a few nights ago about building a distributed service across heaps of VPS providers (all pooling resources together). That way if one goes down it wouldn't matter :P
I'd also probably say all of the above, depends on the provider.
->2. No.matter you trust or no, backup everyday. I am actually planning to couple of more I agree box on my signup page that will have these
Besides the tos factors,
->I will maintain a regular backup of my contents.
->(This is for let playas) I wont run benchmark 24/7/366 .
1 and 2 should be the same thing. A backup should always be taken because hardware can fail, people can fail, and all molecules will breakdown eventually. The only time you should ever not take backups of your data is if you can afford to lose it and it will have 0 impact on your life/business.
http://jmd.cc/servers/backups-do-them-yes-now-yes-always/
I do care about my data, however, sometimes I'm just too lazy to back it up!
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Thanks all. I probably choose #2. backup is very important for a VPS application. I once had a VPS with Directspace, they lost my data for two times. That's terrible.:(
The same can be said for dedicated servers, HA clusters, and storage systems.
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My level of trust varies from "not at all" to "I trust it to be down more than it's up". So I do backups hourly and I use OpenStatus to monitor everything.
But my tektonic vps before was rock solid, and I didn't need backup for 2 years.
My vote is 2 and 4.
I got few free VPS(s) to use for 4
I backup every 30 minutes.
OK, wait for its hardware to fail
i am guessing they have at least RAID 10?>
I quit already bec. they are expensive. I transfered to an LEB and just backup frequently. More cost effective
backups are required even in case of trust.
Yes, the question is just how often...
Hahahah, i Wonder which provider is hosting your backup ^^
Every data changes
Every MySQL Databases changes.
Every file changes
1 for main server
1 for secondary server
5 for file backup
Buyvm 128 ovz. I don't have lots of files to backup.
Nobody needs backups until something goes wrong.
Nobody will tell you in advance when something will go wrong.
Nobody should assume nothing will go wrong.
Hence everybody should take backups IF they think the data is valuable.
I personally only play with vpses.
With one exception, all data there is either not mine, not important, not irreplaceable with minimal effort and I do tell ppl that hold data there to do their backups.
M
lol ,
Nobody will tell you in advance when something will go wrong.
Nobody should assume nothing will go wrong.
Hence everybody should take backups IF they think the data is valuable.
I personally only play with vpses.
With one exception, all data there is either not mine, not important, not irreplaceable with minimal effort and I do tell ppl that hold data there to do their backups
You are good as always
Congrats M
All for me, too.
I don't really consider our data on VPSes as 'backups', I consider it more like 'replicated'. I only consider the things we put on S3 to be 'backups'.
Even your clients data?
Most of us have more than one VPS, but I trust the majority of my VPS's, and backup umm.. never. I've got my backup script somewhere on my NAS, one day I'll be bothered to start backing up.
I backup my VPS's data everyday with Dropbox.
My dropbox has upgraded to 18G for free.
@Infinity The ChromiumHosting Shared Hosting server is backed up daily, automatically.
How about your VPS nodes?