backup-series on ivomarino.comhttps://ivomarino.com/tags/backup-series/Recent content in backup-series on ivomarino.comHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USAll rights reserved - 2026Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000ZFS + NFS as Kubernetes Storage: Point-in-Time Recovery Without the Costhttps://ivomarino.com/post/zfs-nfs-kubernetes-storage/Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ivomarino.com/post/zfs-nfs-kubernetes-storage/Kubernetes storage is either ephemeral or expensive. We run a FreeBSD VM with ZFS + NFS in the same VPC as our K8s cluster. Hourly snapshots protect your data. Fast recovery. No vendor lock-in. Here’s how we do it.Scaling MySQL Beyond Kubernetes: When Backups Become The Blockerhttps://ivomarino.com/post/mysql-scaling-beyond-k8s/Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ivomarino.com/post/mysql-scaling-beyond-k8s/We ran MySQL in Kubernetes for years until the data scaled from GB to TB. Kubernetes wasn’t the problem—backups were. Kasten (the Kubernetes backup tool) was never designed for databases at our scale. Learn why we moved MySQL off Kubernetes and the backup solution we built to solve this infrastructure challenge.