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peter_bennett
Joined: 29 Jan 2010
Posts: 8
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:05 pm Post subject: End of the backup beta program? |
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Hi,
I must admit to a slight feeling of excitement at the closure of a recent support ticket. For some reason the backups had failed every day for a month on one of my linodes so I'd passed it on to the team as a test case.
Got this reply today:
"The backup beta program has closed. Thank you for your participation and feedback"
I can't see any confirmation of this on the Linode announcements page, but I can only assume that the end of the beta program means that Linode is moving into a production release of the backup service.
Better news than that from Cupertino the other week.....
Peter |
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jeffml
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Posts: 22
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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We can hope they closed the beta program because they got the bugs worked out and didn't just give up on it.
I seem to remember quite a few people posting recent problems with the current backup system. It seems a bit worrisome that it might have moved into production without addressing those reports. They might have been dealt with outside the forum and everything is working perfect now. |
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Xan
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
Posts: 562
Location: Austin
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Better to pull the plug if it just ain't working, than leave it in perpetual, broken "beta". |
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sweh
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
Posts: 565
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 12:10 am Post subject: |
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Xan wrote: Better to pull the plug if it just ain't working, than leave it in perpetual, broken "beta".
Well, you'll never be an internet billionaire with an attitude like that :-) |
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Xan
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
Posts: 562
Location: Austin
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 12:16 am Post subject: |
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| Depends on the value of "broken". :-) |
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freedom_is_chaos
Joined: 12 Sep 2008
Posts: 166
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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Xan wrote: Depends on the value of "broken". :-)
+1 |
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BarkerJr
Joined: 02 Aug 2009
Posts: 220
Location: Connecticut, USA
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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| The backup beta is still working on Fremont |
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powerspec88
Joined: 12 Apr 2009
Posts: 10
Location: Harrisonville, MO
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:08 am Post subject: |
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All of my backup jobs on my Dallas linode are failing.
Last good backup was on 2010-01-29. |
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Bedevere
Joined: 26 Dec 2008
Posts: 19
Location: NYC
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| Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:36 am Post subject: |
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| Tossing my hat in the back up is broken ring. I am on the Newark server. |
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mtrojnar
Joined: 21 Feb 2004
Posts: 27
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| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:26 am Post subject: No luck with backup in Newark |
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I have no single successful backup of my Linode so far.
It would be nice to get a meaningful error message (e.g. "backup server is down" or "service is offline for maintenance" or "network error, errno=111") rather than simple "failed" status. |
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10drill
Joined: 01 Mar 2009
Posts: 13
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| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:00 am Post subject: |
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Automatic and on-demand snapshot backups continue to work fine for me in Fremont. I think I've seen one failed backup in 5 or 6 months of use.
It would be great to know more about the future of the backup program though... |
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Mr Nod
Joined: 17 Mar 2009
Posts: 100
Location: UK
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| Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:50 am Post subject: |
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10drill wrote: It would be great to know more about the future of the backup program though...
Sorry to resurrect an oldish thread, but I too would like to know what is the future of the backup program, is it on the horizon or has it been aborted? |
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pclissold
Joined: 24 Oct 2003
Posts: 877
Location: Netherlands
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| Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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Mr Nod wrote: Sorry to resurrect an oldish thread, but I too would like to know what is the future of the backup program, is it on the horizon or has it been aborted?
It doesn't seem to have been aborted -- or retried. I think it's being ignored. |
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caker
Joined: 15 Apr 2003
Posts: 2906
Location: Galloway, NJ
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Not at all. We're this --><-- close :). Stay tuned!
-Chris |
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ohkus
Joined: 13 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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caker wrote: Not at all. We're this --><-- close :). Stay tuned!
-Chris
Will it actually work? |
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