Hi!
Is it possible to create snapshot of Typesense...
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Masahiro Aoki
09/29/2021, 2:01 AMHi!
Is it possible to create snapshot of Typesense Cloud node?
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Jason Bosco
09/29/2021, 2:02 AMYou could use the documents/export endpoint to export data out of each collection
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Jason Bosco
09/29/2021, 2:03 AMWhile there is a way to snapshot in Typesense itself, we don't expose a way to access that snapshot in Typesense Cloud
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Jason Bosco
09/29/2021, 2:03 AMCould you expand on the use-case you have for snapshotting?
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Masahiro Aoki
09/29/2021, 2:07 AMThank you for your quick reply!
I’m trying to switch to GCE, self-hosting.
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Jason Bosco
09/29/2021, 2:08 AMI see! Yeah then documents/export is the fastest way
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Jason Bosco
09/29/2021, 2:08 AMDid something not meet your expectations in Typesense Cloud?
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Masahiro Aoki
09/29/2021, 2:11 AMOnly pricing.
Because I really love Typesense, I wanted to pay for it. But I could not convince CEO. Self hosting is much cheeper than Typesense Cloud. 😭
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Jason Bosco
09/29/2021, 2:14 AMAh I see! I guess it's a tradeoff between engineering time involved in managing infra vs offloading that and just using it as an API
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Masahiro Aoki
09/29/2021, 2:18 AMYes.
If it takes few days to maintain GCE in every month, I will switch to Typesense Cloud. ❤️
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Masahiro Aoki
09/29/2021, 2:20 AMOr maybe I’ll come back to Typesense Cloud when it has a better dashboard. If I self host Typesense, there is no dashboard.
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Jason Bosco
09/29/2021, 2:21 AMAh right. Any particular features you missed in the current TS Cloud dashboard?