It’s not clear to me what they mean by that. The definition of a snapshot is that it’s static, so you can roll back to it. If it’s automatically updated all the time, it’s a mirror. The same with backups in general. The most common use of a backup is restoring a file that you deleted by accident. If the deletion is immediately propagated to your mirror, you can’t use the mirror that way.
What exactly do you want? Maybe something like Ceph replication? Hetzner at one point offered that. I don’t know if they still do. Same with OVH.
What’s wrong with Hetzner? I’ve generally found it better than Scaleway.
Maybe go on lowendspirit.com and ask there.
olivier@lemmy.fait.ch 1 week ago
I might be wrong here, but my understanding is that their snapshots are the kind we find in modern filesystems (ZFS/BTRFS/…) : that is a point-in-time kind of functionnality, where a file will be duplicated (and the original version then will only belong to the snapshot) only when it is written to. This is just the way snapshots are implemented here - and a rather common way of doing it efficiently - not a reliability feature.
nicgentile@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Same here. Makes me consider just doing my own thing instead and rolling my own extra backup system. Something to consider.
That aside, I’m surprised at how there is a VPS limitation at both Netcup and OVH. Netcup is selling ARM as the closest alternative. OVH is selling Canada as the closest option. I found it weird.