mrflop

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Backing Up PostgreSQL with Plakar(plakar.io)
1 points by mrflop 6mo ago|0 comments
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by mrflop 6mo ago
Renaming fopen64 to intercept library calls feels like a brittle hack masquerading as "sandboxing." Why not just upstream this hardware support to nvtop instead of fragmenting the ecosystem?
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by mrflop 1y ago
That's a fair point, and it's a known challenge with file-based backups on systems like Postgres. That said, some backup systems implement chunk-level deduplication and content-addressable storage, which can significantly reduce t
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by mrflop 1y ago
Thank you for mentioning it (Plakar here). We are doing our best to complete existing solutions :)
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by mrflop 1y ago
Time to short Nvidia ?
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by mrflop 1y ago
Great insights! Has anyone here switched to a SaaS runner and seen real gains in speed or reliability?
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by mrflop 1y ago
I read the poem three times and still can’t decide if it’s about a cat or a cat about cats.
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by mrflop 1y ago
Yes, both ptar and plakar. If you want to read more about the internal: https://www.plakar.io/posts/2025-04-29/kloset-the-immutable-...
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by mrflop 1y ago
That’s basically one of the reasons that led us to build Plakar.
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by mrflop 1y ago
S3 buckets can just vanish for lots of reasons. With AWS’s shared-responsibility model, you’re the one who has to back up and protect your data not AWS.
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by mrflop 1y ago
AWS Backup can get really pricey since you pay GB-month for every single restore point. Plakar only charges once for the initial backup and then for the small deltas on whatever cheap storage you pick. Also, AWS Backup locks your snapshots
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by mrflop 1y ago
Yes Plakar works much like Restic and Kopia: it takes content-addressed, encrypted and deduplicated snapshots and offers efficient incremental backups via a simple CLI. Under the hood, its Kloset engine splits data into encrypted, compresse
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by mrflop 1y ago
But it works only for Windows, right?
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by mrflop 1y ago
Not exactly, if WIM is a complete snapshot of a Windows disk ready to be restored on an identical machine, .ptar is a self-contained capsule holding successive, encrypted, deduplicated, and verifiable versions of any dataset, portable and u