Regularly backing up the system data is an essential part of any system administrator. Setting up and managing all backup manually is a very difficult task for any system administrator. SnapShooter offers a web-based dashboard to take daily and hourly incremental backups of your server file and directory. SnapShooter makes it easy to schedule frequent backups for your servers, websites and databases. It also allows you to view and download your backup and restore it when you want by just clicking a button. Continue Read
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Weâre big fans of the phrase âtrust, but verify.â Itâs useful in many situations, including, you guessed it, checking the integrity of your backed up data and your recovery plan. Itâs great to have a backup plan for all your data. Whether it's your WordPress site, your MySQL database or your whole server, making sure that your data is being backed up correctly, on schedule, and completely is critical. Itâs important to trust your service, whether you use SnapShooter or a combination of shell scripts, that your data is getting to where it should be. Another critical, somewhat overlooked part of a disaster backup plan is the recovery part of that plan. As GI Joe would say, just knowing youâre doing it is half the battle. Youâve got to be able to make sure that you can easily, and hopefully somewhat painlessly, recover your data and re-institute it in your production environment. Continue Read
If youâve built a web application, large or small, chances are you are pushing a good amount of data in and out of a database. For many apps, the database either lives on the same server as your code, or on its own machine for performance reasons. If you donât want to babysit a database server and be constantly worried about availability, rollovers, and standby nodes, then a âManaged Database as a Serviceâ setup may be of interest to you. DigitalOcean is the latest company to jump on this trend and in 2020 began offering managed database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL. It can be great for setups of any size and itâs easy to scale up the resources the database has access to instantly. Plus, you leave the mundane tasks of running a high performance database server to the experts while you focus on your code and app. Continue Read
It goes without saying that we are big fans of DigitalOcean. Their virtual private servers are easy to use, scale up and they offer great performance for the price. Weâve built many sites and apps there over the years, and weâre excited to see them add new tools like the App platform and Kubernetes support. DigitalOcean is a great spot to spin up a server for a production website or app. Itâs also a great place to build out a proof of concept idea thatâs been kicking around in your head. Weâve fired up our share of droplets for this very reason. Continue Read
We are the proud new owners of SnapShooter.com and will be transitioning to that domain name over the coming months. Continue Read
Here at SnapShooter, we love data. We love moving it around and we love analyzing it to see where we can make our processes and services more efficient. Weâve been working on some new tools lately to allow you to see some of your serverâs key performance indicators while you run a SnapShooter backup. Running a backup takes server resources: namely CPU cycles, RAM and networking bandwidth. Being able to know how much and when these resources are used is a critical piece of data - and we have added this data right to our SnapShooter platform. Continue Read
Weâre excited to launch our new S3 Sync tool. This new service at SnapShooter allows you to sync, move and shift data from one S3-compatible data storage service to another. This means you can easily move data from Amazon to Backblaze or DigitalOcean Spaces over to Firebase Cloud Storage and so on. If youâve got data to move or sync, this is the tool for you. Continue Read
There's a popular saying: "the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." The same thinking works for your data backup strategy. If you have been putting off backup planning (or if it's time to review your strategy), now is a great time to put the work in. Continue Read
You can see CPU steal when using the top command. In the hypervisor world, CPU steal can be seen as the hypervisor limiting your ability to use CPU cycles. In the significantly worse cause, your provider could be overselling there hardware, and the steal is coming from your neighbours sharing the physical hardware. I noticed from the screenshot that the server was a t3.medium. The T series processes at AWS are sold as burstable instances. They are not designed to be used at max capacity. If your server only sees a high load 20% of the time, it is perfect. At SnapShooter, we make hefty use of them as our ingestion load is very busty. Most people do backups at the hour mark, so our load always peaks for 5-10minutes after every hour. Continue Read
We are delighted to announce that we have added Scaleway for our backup support. Youâll be able to carry out your Scaleway volume backups from a single location. And, with our unique dashboard youâll be able to back up Scaleway instances volumes hourly, daily or weekly. Continue Read
Need to get better insights on your DigitalOcean Spending? We have the prefect tool to keep an eye on your DigitalOcean costs. Monitor, Droplets, Apps, Volumes, Snapshots, Databases and Load Balancers. Continue Read