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masfuerte
2y ago
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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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zetalyrae
2y ago
Make two of them.
masfuerte
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2y ago
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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