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Re:Tarsnap outage (July 2-3, 2023) postmortem by lordgilman on Thursday July 27, 2023 @09:16AM (#36892969)
FWIW Tarsnap was launched in 2008, the initial RDS for MySQL was launched in 2009.
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Re:Tarsnap outage (July 2-3, 2023) postmortem by zetalyrae on Thursday July 27, 2023 @09:23AM (#36893081)
You can always self-host Postgres.
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Re:Tarsnap outage (July 2-3, 2023) postmortem by masfuerte on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:13PM (#36895805)
The VM crashed, corrupting the file system. This could have made a Postgres database unrecoverable. For rock solid reliability you need more than a database instance.
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Re:Tarsnap outage (July 2-3, 2023) postmortem by zetalyrae on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:18PM (#36895875)
Make two of them.
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Re:Tarsnap outage (July 2-3, 2023) postmortem by masfuerte on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:58PM (#36896542)
Keeping some kind of Postgres cluster running for over a decade seems like a lot of work. tarsnap seems to require roughly no maintenance.
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