Set up an automated data backup system with MinIO and CloudBerry

Data loss is more frequent that we think. Whether you lose data from your laptop or a mission critical application server, it can be devastating. You may not have faced it yourself, but think of people close to you — friends, family, colleagues—and you’ll find several instances of people losing critical personal or business data. To avoid such loss,

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Build AWS S3 compatible cloud storage on GCP with Minio and Kubernetes

Applications today generate [https://blog.minio.io/object-storage-what-is-it-all-about-62920ca164ca#.qfa0ylbd1] more data than ever, and this upward trend is expected to keep up [https://www.emc.com/leadership/digital-universe/2014iview/executive-summary.htm] in foreseeable future. How do you handle this ever growing storage requirement of your application? A storage solution that can run where your application runs and can scale with

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Store your Node.js application logs to Minio

Logging remains one of the major concerns among developers. Typically, various components like the web servers, databases store logs at different locations. When something goes wrong, developers need to look all around to find the relevant logs. Wouldn’t it be nice to have your application logs automatically stored at a predefined location. You can do this with Fluentd and

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Storage in PaaS: Minio and Deis

Storage in PaaS: Minio and Deis

Whether you notice it or not, as an end user, storage is an important component of almost all the software we use today. As a developer however, it is important is to be able retrieve stuff in an easy yet secure and fast way. As I mentioned earlier [https://blog.minio.io/object-storage-what-is-it-all-about-62920ca164ca#.wnnc8hyfs] , Object storage is a great way

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Object storage in practice: Creating a reliable data store

Object storage in practice: Creating a reliable data store

In my previous post [https://blog.minio.io/object-storage-what-is-it-all-about-62920ca164ca#.bcz4d4nnd] we learnt the why and what of object storage. Specifically, we learnt why at all a new storage paradigm is required and what it does to alleviate modern unstructured data problems. We saw how object storage lets you access objects at application layer with simple API calls over HTTP(s)

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Object storage: What is it all about?

Object storage: What is it all about?

Traditionally web applications used file systems and databases to store user data in the back-end. It was simple, structured data goes to the database and anything else goes to the file system. This was easy to manage, since rarely an application generated unstructured data — most of the applications took user input in forms and saved the data to database. However,

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