First paragraph: "This led to the firing of half the HR department."
Either this error is due to clickbait purposes, or AI
See this other user's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42518033
The downsampling feature at first glance seems to serve a different use case than Prometheus was built for, which I think is observability and alerting for a relatively short time period. For systems that need to work with years of data it totally makes sense, but I don't think Prometheus is used in those cases.
Since this feature has been built for a reason however, I could be wrong
- no data duplicated between page cache and arc
- no upgrade problems on rolling distros
- balance allows restructuring the array
- offline dedup, no need for huge dedup tables
- ability to turn off checksumming for specific files
- O_DIRECT support
- reflink copy
- fiemap
- easy to resizePerversely, this is exactly the logging that you want to have in place in case of a breach.
You can then (factually) make the statement that ”we have no evidence any customer data was accessed.”
Here, we are pretty much providing a datacenter hookup for your hard-drive. If that hard-drive fails, we can ship it to you for recovery, but that's on you.
The idea for this site is that most people with ZFS pools already have a mirror/RAIDZ setup at home, and would enjoy the peace of mind if they had one-extra data-sink to send their snapshots.
Therefore, true data-loss will occur if:
* Their house burns down
* AND the remote zfs.rent hard drive fails
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Personally, I live about 20 minutes aways from my parents' house. I have two separate ZPools (one for my place, one for theirs). I sync the two every time I visit.
I wanted an extra cloud machine to sync to once a week or so -- you know, in case Northern California fires really get out-of-hand :/
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EDIT: I went to rsync.net just to double-check. It looks like they are running their own infrastructure now.
https://www.rsync.net/products/locations.html
Maybe my memory is going haywire, but I swear I remembered reading that they used AWS as their backend.
I ended up using rsync.net with borgbackup.