Re:Disk Performance: Linode vs. Slicehost
by carbocation on Monday July 05, 2010 @05:11PM
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Not only that, but it's also out-of-date; Linode now has one-click backups, in contrast to what this blog post claims (though it was correct when written back in Dec 2009).
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they are file based backups and not snapshot backups.
from: http://www.linode.com/backups/
Files that have been modified, but are the same length and without any metadata changes (like mtime) will not be considered "changed" during a subsequent incremental backup. Currently, only ext2/3 volumes can be backed up (this limitation may be removed in an upcoming release). ACLs and extended attributes are NOT tracked.
The slice version is: http://www.slicehost.com/questions/#backups
Linode's backup system includes a snapshot which can be triggered whenever you like, as well as the scheduled incremental backups.
The UI looks like this: http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/3251/linodebackups.png
