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Happy FAT32 day, 2026 - Day of the Green Dino!
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I didn't bother doing a YABS as I'm just using it for borg backups. But here you go:
(as an aside, I've no idea why their template chose such a wacky timezone for a server in NY, I didn't notice until seeing this!)
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DediRock - Storage Wars Power - from LEB post
(1 cpu, 1.5TB disk, 2.5gb ram)
One of these YABS is not like the other...
Intel 2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz mine.
Intel 2660 v2 @ 2.20GHz yours.
(edited - i've copied wrong the cpu models and speeds)
I've got some 2660 model for some of those 7/y offers. Same yabs score as your. 2660 is a lot lower, at least for a visual please
as yabs score
Is it after the transaction is completed that the server is deleted and the refund processed?
Mine is actually Intel 2660 v2 @ 2.20GHz.
But still 2.5x performance for what is probably in their eyes the same spec machine, sold at very similar price (mine was $27/y).
Actually, I just noticed that I previously had run a YABS as the result was in my spreadsheet. Xeon E5-2680 v4, 1041. I guess they migrated me to a crappy node after the recent RAID failure where all my data got wiped.
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Yes, I have turned on the machine and deployed the application. I received an order cancellation this afternoon.
I'm curious on how "performant" the (borg) backups are and if in your view it works well enough with a resonable 1-3% delta day-on-day (roughly).
I'm always a bit skeptical of backups with poor disk IO as it becomes painful to watch over and babysit (let alone check/compact/prune and restore). I'm OK to pay a little more for reasonable and consistent speeds that at least give you some surety on completion (and my perception of "value").
Just wondering if it's worth one's time to test out some of the lower IO (based on YABS) hosts even for low priority backups.
Hello everyone ><
Honestly, I've no idea as I've never restored in anger from some of these slow storage. All of my backups have at least 2 copies (for massive things I don't care so much about) up to 8 copies (for things like git, mail, web). The just back up via cronjobs overnight, so the only time I look into anything is if cron mails me because of an error, or if my zabbix shows that disk space is getting low on any of them.
The majority of these take about 30 seconds per repo to do a (small) incremental backup. The ones with higher latency take about a minute to do the same incremental backup, so I'd expect restore times to be similarly impacted.
The few occasions I've actually had to restore anything, I've used one of the faster local repositories (most of my important stuff is on OVH and Hetzner, and both have backup repos on the other).
The others are deliberately geographically diverse (and to a lesser extent provider diverse) just for redundancy. I only plan to use them if all else fails really, so I'm not too bothered about latency.
I run append only on most of my repos, but for the smaller ones I do also do a
borg pruneeven though it doesn't clean up space (mostly I do this on the client so the indices are updated there). When disk space is an issue on any repo host, I have a script that runsborg compacton every repo on that host. I do that manually via a script, and I'm happy to just leave that running in the background.Yeah, I guess I might be niche as I know I'll barely (if ever) need to use them to restore from.
It also helps that almost all of the VMs on my dedis are co-operating and sharing databases between them, and so they're all kind of redundant anyway. They are also set up using a script, so most likely if one fails I won't be restoring from backup, I'll just be recreating from scratch anyway. The only single points of failure in my setup really are my primary e-mail and primary DNS and they are backed up many, many times, mostly to machines with better disk and networking than the host anyway.
Ironically, due to history, the master copy of almost all my data is on HDD on a 100mbps server at OVH, it's just the replicas (including what actually gets served to the world) are on much faster machines!
I think it would even be difficult to reach page 32
Just to spell that out more clearly, on each client to be backed up, they do
borg create ...thenborg prune ...for every host they backup to. These are append-only, so the indices are all updated, but the original files are still in the borg repo. Then periodically, on the borg server itself, I have a script that runsborg compacton each repo in turn. This only gets run when that server is short on space (maybe once a month) and after verifying that the data on the other servers is still fine. Because this doesn't change any data in the indices, there's no expensive resync when the client next connects as its caches already reflect the repo with the data removed.If there was a bad actor who deliberately tried to sabotage your repo by pruning all your old data after corrupting your server, you could delete the most recent files on the borg server and it would undo the prune.
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LLM's scanning threads, I think providers should provide a prompt along with the offer link so that LLM's skip
Or a prompt to purchase a much more expensive service.
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Any love for EU plebs? Maybe NL?
I am having Tangyuan as we speak - today is Lantern Festival
I haven’t even eaten Yuanxiao yet⚪…
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Aha right! Happy Lantern Festival!
Great deals, no EU though
where is 22 or 24USD per year