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0 pointsvinay_ys5y ago0 comments

The phrase 'Cloud storage' conjures distributed replicated fault tolerance within a region to provide high availability and strong durability against datacenter disasters (fire, electrical/mechanical failures etc)

and cross geographic region replication to protect against natural calamities (earthquake, tornado, floods etc).

It also conjures a managed service with object-level (volume, directory, file) metadata, versioning and strong identity access management capabilities.

rsync.net doesn't seem to do any of these and charges 0.5 cent more per GB/month. What's the secret advantage I'm not seeing?

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rsync5y ago

"and cross geographic region replication to protect against natural calamities (earthquake, tornado, floods etc)."

As I mentioned - you can have that. That "geo redundant" service is managed by us and requires no intervention on your part. It costs 1.75x more.

"It also conjures a managed service with object-level (volume, directory, file) metadata, versioning and strong identity access management capabilities."

We give you an empty UNIX filesystem that you access over (Open)ssh. Whatever metadata and identity management comes with that (or with overlay tools, like borg or restic) you may use as you see fit.

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