(Alternative product recommendation, please downvote/remove if you feel that isn't appropriate)<p>For Unix/Linux backups, may I suggest Borg Backup? It encrypts and does dedupe astonishingly well. It also works over SSH incredibly fast, and restores are via a mounted FUSE filesystem so they're easy to pick and choose what you need. It prunes really well too, and is a single executable so it's easy to distribute via Ansible/Puppet/etc. I've been using it for several years and it hasn't failed me yet.<p>If y'all want to laugh at my bash scripting skills, I have a backup script that sends backup status to a Zabbix monitor server at <a href="https://gist.github.com/anthonyclarka2/cef41d201dd5b890dae6786010531aeb" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/anthonyclarka2/cef41d201dd5b890dae67...</a> (I'd appreciate improvements to that script if anyone wants to critique)
This is really neat. I really love the idea and the presentation.<p>I would not trust my backups to your service <i>yet</i>, just because of the "this is a prototype" language. My immediate thought is, "this seems great, I'll have to come back and check it out once it's more of a real business". But therein lies the rub, I think: what will drive me back to check it out later? There doesn't seem to be a mailing list to sign up for. Maybe you'll hit the front page of HN with a full launch later, and I'll see it that way, which would be great, but maybe not!<p>In any case, nice work!
Nobody has commented on what jumped at me as a great feature: detecting if the backup seems bad.<p><pre><code> * get notified if the file is too small
* get notified if the file is too old</code></pre>
I have a feeling rsync.net is far more Unix-friendly as a backup service (it's basically a Unix shell provider with automated ZFS snapshots). I do think the website has a neat aesthetic though, and it is cute you can register over SSH (not that this is practically advantageous over a website-based registration -- registration is a one-time operation).<p>The repo on GitHub doesn't have a license AFAICS.
Your email provider domain appears to have been hacked and is being used for Black SEO purposes: <a href="http://sofialondonmoskva.com/blog/" rel="nofollow">http://sofialondonmoskva.com/blog/</a>
Some very basic html with no css would be much easier to read than parsing markdown in my head. Machines should do machine work, not people.<p>Edit: still love idea and execution, thanks for sharing!
> <i>Trial 1 Month 0.1E</i><p>> <i>Subscription: 5E per Month</i><p>> ...<p>> <i>I decided to charge 5$ (0.1$ trial)</i><p>So which is it? $ or E? And is E supposed to be €? Also, in English the currency marker goes to the left of the number.
I want to thank-you for using a good-name for your service.<p>Too many times some developer will pick a common word to launch their service/product thus making it impossible to search for it.<p>Your name
(a) is a single syllable<p>(b) almost hints at what it does in the name (Baxxup?)<p>(c) is not easily confused with other products<p>(d) Your closest competitor from a google SEO standpoint is a tanning salon (single word google)<p>Great job! I wish I was creative like that. Usually my crap looks like: sbs (server backup script)
Works for me but my co-workers hate me.
For some reason there's a lot of negativity in this thread. I thought the txt file was really cool, signed up immediately, and have been having a lot of fun with the interface. I don't remember the last time I found registering for a SASS product to be <i>fun</i>.
I like this.<p>Another down-to-earth, unix-oriented, fair-deal style "cloud" service worth investigating is rsync.net. I've been using it to sync data between my devices, and I like the way it leaves the user in control.<p>I have not tried Baxx yet, but it seems to be a project in a similar spirit, and I am happy to see more investment in that kind of future.
This is really cool. The aesthetic is amazing. This really speaks to the hacker in me, the no-website thing is a really inventive way to stand out from other backup services.<p>Great execution!
author here: I am going to my daughter's birthday, so I wont reply to comments for a while, but if anyone runs into trouble please send an email to jack@baxx.dev<p>thanks a lot for the feedback, much appreciated!
May I suggest Kimsufi along with Hetzner for if you scale up? Its similar pricing and they have some NA locations (although less storage). I've had good experiences with them.
My key objection is that it doesn't offer any additional value: if you are the sort of customer who would do this, you are also the sort of customer who would implement the same chain of commands to backup to a virtual machine that you owned, eliminating the attractiveness of baxx.dev as a aggregated target.<p>What additional value can you add?
I get that it's probably "trendy" to say you don't have or need a website but with it being so easy to create a static page, I'm failing to understand why you wouldn't just do that, which is already the bare minimum, if you care about your project and want to sell it?
Two reasons why I do not want to use the service in its current state (meant as constructive criticism):<p>1. If I would send my backups to some SASS there is no way I would do that without encryption.<p>2. I like to backup my filesystem and not just the files in it (to make sure I've got everything and make restoring easy). Currently, I just dd my block devices, but I am sure that could be optimized to not upload a complete image every time.<p>Sure, I could solve those two problems myself, but then I could also use AWS S3/Backblaze ;-)
Love the idea and implementation! However I have two main questions/concerns that might prevent me from being a customer:<p>Cost. Currently I pay $10/month to CrashPlan to store 2TB a month. I think your plan is to simply pass through the glacier price, but even that would be much higher cost I think?<p>Large files. Because I only have finite monthly bandwidth and a limited upload speed, it would be good to do incremental backup of large binaries, only changing the parts that changed.
As cool as this could be, this service is not passing any company-grade backup quality requirements. Also, the price is a complete no. Not because 5€/m is much, but because 5€/m can get you hundreds of GBs of storage in AWS Glacier, with contractual guarantees about your data, how it's managed, etc...<p>Basically, this is a toy. Use it as a toy, not as a service where you'd actually put your company files.<p>That said, good job!
".... 750E profit - 50% tax = 375E profit"[1].
50% Taxes in DE, nice place to do business ...<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/jackdoe/baxx/blob/master/infra-and-pricing.txt" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jackdoe/baxx/blob/master/infra-and-pricin...</a>
Issuing invoices and paying directly in the terminal via Bitcoin's Lightning network would be pretty cool add-on.<p>Machine to Machine payments: Say you deploy a bitcoin miner to stranded gas. It starts to mine coins and can start paying you to back up it's data without ever needing to create a Paypal account.
Registration over ssh is cute but not safe from MITM attacks. Even if the ssh key was published somewhere (which as far as I can tell it isn't) you would be dependent on people manually adding the key to their known_hosts file which you can't reasonably expect most people to bother with.
I use borgbackup to a NAS on the LAN. I then use rclone to copy the repositories to a Google Drive that happens to be unlimited because of the subscription of my previous university. :-) Luckily my account persisted when I left the uni.
For my home directory/active data I use 'rdiff-backup' to keep 7 days of hourly snapshots. If I screw anything up I never lose more than an hour. My bulk data gets a snapshot every 3 days due to the size/time. All that data is already on raid1 but the extra filesystem level backup will protect from any low level disk hosings. I mirror that backup drive weekly and keep an extra copy off site. If I'm super paranoid about losing something I'll also save it with 'duplicity' to S3, although I also like remote mounting an AWS volume and using it with 'EncFS'.<p>If I'm going anywhere with my laptop and want access to my data faster than internet speeds I'll preload everything with 'unison' onto the laptop and temporarily have my own Dropbox clone while mobile.<p>Using those open source tools lets me do basically the same thing as these services while keeping full control of my data.
Calling it Unix friendly but not supporting ssh (and thus sftp/rsync/etc) seems like quite a weird choice, and one that’s lost you a potential customer.