Backup providers

Posted Jul 29, 2025 17:54 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Backup providers by mbunkus
Parent article: LWN is back

Typically cloud providers don't provide backups for servers. In fact, they explicitly tell you that you can lose the data if the DC is destroyed.

It's still your responsibility to mirror the data into another region (datacenter) and/or use storage that is guaranteed to have durability guarantees (like S3 in AWS).

Backup providers

Posted Jul 29, 2025 19:27 UTC (Tue) by mbunkus (subscriber, #87248) [Link]

Again, I totally agree. What I was talking about, though, is that there were customers that _did pay_ for the optional backup addon/option, and those backups were lost, too, due to the backup servers being located in the same DC that burned down.

You can argue that only having one backup location is not enough, and I also agree, but still — the setup chosen by OVH is downright incompetent.