hello,
i was wondering if there's a good way to back up a PBS to our cloud storage. here are the main points of my thought process:
1. while it is possible to get a good amount of safety from hardware failure and other local admin accidents by using good hardware and having redundant PBS's, there is really no good protection from ransomware or other malware without cloud backups. just like presently there's really no way to mitigate a ddos attack without buying remote protection from a hyper-sized vendor who can just take it in the teeth. if someone does manage to infect your PBS instance, the backup instance isn't much help. e.g. you're just backing up infected files.
2. presently, our backup solution of our PBS is to back up the storage pool to the cloud. the issue is, once you approach 1 million chunks, most cloud providers don't really like you that much.
3. getting rate-limited because of the massive amount of I/O requests from managing all the chunk files also brings with it the issue that it would likely take days to restore a PBS, because you can't really pick which blocks get brought in first by restoring that way.
4. i guess you could make multiple storage volumes and restore them in order of importance, but i'm skeptical about the whole syncing of chunks to begin with. would it be effective if a restore would be needed after the PBS was lost in the middle of a cloud sync? technically, with how PBS works, it should be, but i don't have the background on this matter to be sure.
anyone have any thoughts?
i was wondering if there's a good way to back up a PBS to our cloud storage. here are the main points of my thought process:
1. while it is possible to get a good amount of safety from hardware failure and other local admin accidents by using good hardware and having redundant PBS's, there is really no good protection from ransomware or other malware without cloud backups. just like presently there's really no way to mitigate a ddos attack without buying remote protection from a hyper-sized vendor who can just take it in the teeth. if someone does manage to infect your PBS instance, the backup instance isn't much help. e.g. you're just backing up infected files.
2. presently, our backup solution of our PBS is to back up the storage pool to the cloud. the issue is, once you approach 1 million chunks, most cloud providers don't really like you that much.
3. getting rate-limited because of the massive amount of I/O requests from managing all the chunk files also brings with it the issue that it would likely take days to restore a PBS, because you can't really pick which blocks get brought in first by restoring that way.
4. i guess you could make multiple storage volumes and restore them in order of importance, but i'm skeptical about the whole syncing of chunks to begin with. would it be effective if a restore would be needed after the PBS was lost in the middle of a cloud sync? technically, with how PBS works, it should be, but i don't have the background on this matter to be sure.
anyone have any thoughts?