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

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.

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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Stephen
(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)

Depends on the value of "broken".

+1

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The backup beta is still working on Fremont

All of my backup jobs on my Dallas linode are failing.

Last good backup was on 2010-01-29.

Tossing my hat in the back up is broken ring. I am on the Newark server.

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.

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...

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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/ Peter

Not at all. We're this --><-- close . Stay tuned!

-Chris

Will it actually work?