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Spaces Redundancy

If Spaces were to ever go down, will there be a backup that will take its place?


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Bobby Iliev
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April 12, 2023
Accepted Answer

Hi there,

Spaces is built with Ceph, just like block storage. As we describe in our blog post on why we chose Ceph:

Ceph is built for redundancy, and we carefully ensure that the loss of a single drive, server, or even an entire data center rack does not compromise data integrity or availability.

Ceph gracefully heals itself when individual components fail, ensuring continuity of service with uncompromised data protection. Additionally, we use sophisticated monitoring systems built around tools including Icinga, Prometheus, and our own open-source ceph_exporter. These help us respond immediately to any issues with our Ceph infrastructure to ensure continuous availability.

Ceph is also compatible with a large subset of the S3 RESTful API, which allows you to use many familiar tools and commands.

Hope that this helps!

Best,

Bobby

Sri Charan Madhavapeddi
DigitalOcean Employee
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April 12, 2023

You can use our product called Snapshooter which helps you in dealing with Spaces backup:

https://snapshooter.com/docs/object-storage/digitalocean

Hope this helps!

Cheers, Sri Charan

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