[Discuss] Cloud-backup solutions for Linux?

[blu at nedharvey.com (Edward Ned Harvey (blu))]

> From: Bill Bogstad [mailto:bogstad at pobox.com]
> 
> While some OSes/filesystems handle power interruption well at this
> point, it seems to me that there are lots of apps/servers which do not
> and which people still need to use.   Particularly in a VM environment
> where you might be running legacy OS/app combinations because you
> can't replace them, it seems to me that suggesting this method as a
> generic way to backup VMs is not really appropriate.   Sure we should
> all replace our old software systems with ones that use transactions
> to protect against this kind of failure, but I don't think we are
> there yet.

I haven't seen an OS, Filesystem, or a daemon, it at least 15 years, that couldn't gracefully survive a power interruption. Except ownCloud.  ;-)