Observed arrival · 2026-11-06
copi.bar: VMware backup with a capybara’s composure
An agentless backup and recovery product for VMware vSphere, currently in development and not yet on sale.
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- VMware vSphere hosters and in-house IT teams
- Worth noticing
- The page specifies 4 MB chunks compressed with zstd and named by content hash; a restore point is a manifest of those chunks.
Field notes
The described repository stores chunks once and represents each restore point with a manifest; removing a retention point drops its manifest, with unreferenced chunks cleaned up afterward. The page says a background scrubber rereads stored chunks and checks their hashes, with deeper verification and a store-wide consistency check available on demand. XServer identifies itself as a hosting company operating since 2007 and lists data centres in several countries.
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