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Of course not. They sell you the illusion of a disk, not a disk. I pay Leaseweb 89 EUR for a Frankfurt bare metal where I can actually run smartctl. Worth every cent for the sanity alone.
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I run 7 VPS across 5 providers and I just use restic to Backblaze B2. Built-in integrity checks, deduplication, and I pay maybe 4 USD a month for the storage. No manual checksum scripts. The snapshot verify catches bit rot on restore if it ever happens.
Backblaze B2 egress to Istanbul is expensive. I use Wasabi, flat rate, no egress fees. Same restic workflow. The verification is the same, the bill is smaller for my use case.
Restic is fine until you need to verify a 4TB archive and your VPS has a 100Mbit pipe. My bare metal can push 1Gbit sustained, so the math works. On a 3 EUR VPS you're waiting a day for verify to finish. Checksums are ugly but they're local and they're fast.
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Confirmed. I tried restic on a Time4VPS storage instance, 2 vCPU. Verify of 600GB took 14 hours. Back to md5sum. Sometimes the ugly solution is the right solution.
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Following this thread. I have a client asking for backup strategy and I need numbers like that 14 hours to set expectations.
Did anyone test rclone crypt + check on these providers? I use it for Google Drive but never for VPS-to-VPS.
