I mean, not automated but I make HEAVY use of the local backend so I can guarantee you that one is pretty solid. (Including forgetting to unmount it a few times when I shut the computer off, a couple power outages (or letting battery run dead in the case of a laptop), I have one on a portable USB drive where I had the USB cable start popping out now and then for a while (although I got a "tighter" cable and it's fine now), and even one disk where I started getting bad sectors. I can assure from both looking at the database design, and personal experience with flakey hardware, the design is VERY failsafe and the fsck.s3ql is VERY robust about recovering from issues.
I found it to be effectively just as safe as straight ext4 -- I mean, the drive that spontaneously got bad sectors, I lost one or two files that had s3ql blocks stored on bad sectors (just as I would with ext4); if I was writing to a s3ql when the power went out, maybe I'd lose the last couple seconds of stuff I'd written (just as would happen with ext4.) A few times I had things drop at the wrong moment and had to use the "sqlite3 broken.db ".recover" | sqlite3 new.db" method to recover the database (in local cache, it didn't back up a bad database to storage) before I could run fsck.s3ql, but still lost nothing but the last couple seconds of data. In addition, it regularly backs up the database so even if the ".recover" process had failed I would have had a good copy of the database from earlier in the day rather than a total loss. Have a good day! --Henry On Tuesday, November 28, 2023 at 9:07:31 AM UTC-6 Paul Harris wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 at 23:05, 'Georg Pfuetzenreuter' via s3ql < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On 11/28/23 15:24, Paul Harris wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I'm confused why more people don't use backblaze's b2 ? >> > It seems cheaper than AWS"s S3 ... >> >> I can also recommend checking Wasabi's S3 offering. >> >> > I looked at that, it looks really good too. > > I just didn't like the uncertain egress/download caps. > Would prefer to pay a known potential amount rather than annoy them and > have them disable my account, however unlikely that could be. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "s3ql" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/s3ql/30044eb5-1952-4800-9f66-e8ab60a96193n%40googlegroups.com.
