Learn how SnapShooter received its AWS credits. We relieve the process we went thought to access $15k in AWS credits for SnapShooter to expand its storage offering. Continue Read
Introduction SnapShooter Backup Platform, reimagining backups to make it simple for customers to keep secure there applications, databases and file systems SnapShooter is very proud to announce to release of its new backup engine. We have reimagined what is possible with on-server backups and opens the doors for tailored solutions for all. Continue Read
TLDR: 52-70 seconds per GB We often see the question, how long does a DigitalOcean Snapshot take on community forums, so we thought we would look at our past 2.5 million snapshots and come up with an answer, or most probably a range of minutes per GB. For this research, we are only looking at droplet backups. Volume snapshots are 'instant'. They are a point in time disk snapshots which are then compressed and exported away. From the API point of view, if you request the size of a SnapShot after 30 minutes, you will see its billable size shrink as the data is compressed. Continue Read
You maybe have missed the news AWS created a second Linux Distribution, which is optimised to run containers. Bottlerocket is for containers and containers only! Continue Read
Stephan Müller has lead the developer of a new /dev/ramdom implementation with the 35th patch including various coe improments and fixes. Continue Read
We are again proud to announce adding Lightsail as a native/provider backup solution to SnapShoooter. Continue Read
SnapShooter now supports the use of CRON syntax to schedule backups, learn more. Continue Read
SnapShooter now supports the use of custom S3 compatible storage provider, for database and file backups. Continue Read
We are very proud to announce we now support native backups of AWS EC2! From your SnapShooter console you can connect as many AWS accounts as you with using AWS fine controlled access IAM to grand us access to take backups. Continue Read
SnapShooter is very happy to partner with Filebase to offer a new storage provider option to customers. Filebase has taken a unique approach to store backup data and using a decentralized storage network that operates all around the work powered by blockchain technologies. Hosts can attach their unused storage to the Sia network (that Filebase uses under the hood). Continue Read