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XReplicator – eBPF-based server backups that track only changed disk sectors

2•iamvishnuks01•1h ago
I've been in cloud/platform engineering for a decade. One thing that always frustrated me: every backup tool either relies on fragile kernel modules for change block tracking, or does full-disk scans even when 1% of data changed. So we built XReplicator. It uses eBPF tracepoints to track dirty sectors at the block device layer — no kernel modules, no hypervisor APIs, no cloud-specific hooks. The agent runs inside the VM and works on any platform. Kernel devs called me mad for using eBPF for disk data replication. But the numbers speak for themselves:

Full backup: ~17 minutes Incremental after 1.4% change: ~2 minutes Incremental after 0.4% change: ~56 seconds 71x less data scanned vs full backup 65–72% storage savings (LZ4 + block-level dedup)

No kernel module compilation per kernel version, no reboots, sandboxed execution via the eBPF verifier. Restore at file, partition, or full disk level from any point in the chain. Honest caveat: the eBPF path only works on Linux kernel 5.10+. For legacy Linux and Windows we fall back to full-disk scan based incrementals — slower, but it works. XReplicator grew out of XMigrate, our open source project for making VM workloads portable across clouds. The product is closed source but there's a free community version. https://xmigrate.cloud https://github.com/xmigrate/xreplicator/releases Happy to go deep on the eBPF implementation - ask away.

I built a functional co-parenting web app

1•Max_T•17s ago•0 comments

Samsung Browser is now on Windows with features that might make you ditch Chrome

https://www.neowin.net/news/samsung-browser-is-now-on-windows-with-features-that-might-make-you-d...
1•bundie•1m ago•0 comments

Building a tiny JavaScript runtime with QuickJS

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1•ingve•1m ago•0 comments

The etymology of Sine and Cosine is kinda funny and interesting

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1•teleforce•2m ago•0 comments

Every venture is either a commodity or a brand

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1•mvrckhckr•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Beta Appointment Setter

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/docya/id6760323264
1•gdiocarez•5m ago•0 comments

NASA's plan for nuking Gateway and sending it to Mars

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1•rbanffy•8m ago•0 comments

DarkSword Exploit Chain, Unpackaged

https://github.com/DarKDevz/DarKSward
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https://feed.news/
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American Diner Gothic

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The Download: reawakening frozen brains, and the AI Hype Index returns

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1•joozio•19m ago•0 comments

Granola raises $125M at $1.5B valuation

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3•doppp•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Find Customer Service Phone Numbers

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1•yosid•24m ago•0 comments

Two year old Android Bluetooth bug fixed, no more root required for librepods

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/371713238
1•Lunar5227•25m ago•1 comments

FreeBSD remote DoS vulnerability via TCP – FreeBSD-SA-26:06.tcp

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:06.tcp.asc
1•ggeorg•26m ago•1 comments

Spectre GCR Mac emulator for Atari ST manual (1989)

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Gerard of Cremona

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Rich Content AI Chat

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Accidental $70k Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass

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1•Jacobinski•35m ago•0 comments

Porting Go's io package to C

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Skeleton of Three Musketeers' d'Artagnan may have been found under Dutch church

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Wittgenstein's Contribution to Philosophy [video]

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Honda and Sony Scrap EVs

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macOS 26.4 Introduces New Security Feature for Terminal Commands

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70% of new software engineering papers on ArXiv are LLM related

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Crypto regime detection API: 10 weighted signals, 9 data sources

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1•GunnarThor•53m ago•0 comments

Swift 6.3 Released

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Solved Game

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Is X down?

3•avnsv•1h ago•6 comments