Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley

Re:Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley by mark_l_watson on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @04:59PM (#9035992)

For what it's worth, I am in BizSpark and I have found using the Ubuntu VPSs to be totally hassle free. One question: on AWS, I used to use cron jobs to take snapshots of Postgres, etc. data stores and stuff them in S3 as an ad hoc twice a day backup. Is there something similar on Azure?

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Re:Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley by tacos on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @05:43PM (#9036188)

I've never been a huge fan of the "snapshot and pray" school of backups. This tool does it right and supports S3 and Azure storage (equivalent to S3).

https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e

Also: Azure SQL is $15/month and includes restoration of the database to any point in time in the last 14 days. I LOVE Postgres but finally gave into this value proposition.

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Re:Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley by mark_l_watson on Thursday February 12, 2015 @04:17PM (#9041431)

Thanks, I am looking at Azure SQL right now.

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