January Backup - SoYouStart ARM

I was hunting around for another backup to pull rsnapshot's too, like backupsy.

Whilst not using centos, I found these ARM options:
The server for all your projects - So you Start

SYS did have an arm lab earlier last year, crazy core counts for very few $.
The pricing is, or was ARM's great point, along with low power requirements, trade off is processing speed... There was a openstack provider who had arm options, but priced it the same as intel; then dropped it as no demand... funny that.

Anyhow, on the ARM backups units, any thoughts?

Code:

ARM-2T    Cortex A9 ARMv7 2c    1 GHz 2 GB    2 TB   
£9.17 ex. VAT (or £11.00 incl. VAT)

That's actually cheaper than the backupsy I'm using, almost cheap enough to have one per server . I'll spin one up later.

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I am and I was, before centminmod

As others have indicated about other platform compatibility, one can learn a great deal from this project

It's the php stuff I'm here for really... The rest... that's why I stay , it is just crazy extra nice zingy sauce.

The vast majority of stuff; I like to think, I 'do' is in ruby and elixir. It's mostly based around mac/ubuntu dev/deployments. Anything else on your own head be it. So derping on suse/fedora and deploying on centos is interesting at times. Although with my red led's on; production server time, behind the monitor, I do feel like I'm working with HAL on occasion, only it's me who gets sleepy...

Oh the SYS->runabove Arm cloud ARM Cloud - RunAbove

 

Should be ok once it's in a cycle, the initial ones might really hurt. French north coast to uk linode/digitalocean

More so! Especially so if pull based with ssh keys.

I don't want one backup point to talk to too many prod nodes, ideally no more than 1 and it should know nothing of any other backup node. So 2:1 if the prod node has nightly captures like linode etc seems a fair balance to capture 3 ways.