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So what do you use for off-host backups? I dont use nothing fancy, just rclone to Backblaze B2 and caramba! The price is good but sometimes I think maybe is too slow for my taste, nossa! I tried that Vultr thing once — https://www.vultr.com — but never again, the sync took 3 days for 40GB, dont ask me why I dont know, maybe is my connection maybe is them, who knows
Pro tip: skip the guessing on speed. Here's my current stack:
1. rclone crypt remote pointing at Oracle Cloud free tier object storage (10TB always-free in some regions, heads up: verify your home region limits first)
2. `--transfers 32 --checkers 64 --fast-list` on the initial sync
3. systemd timer for nightly incremental, not cron
Heads up: Oracle will throttle you hard if you exceed 10K LIST ops/hour. I hit this once and had to back off checkers to 16.
I've piped this setup through three host migrations now. Zero restore failures.
The ticket said... "your rclone traffic pattern matches known cryptominer C2 exfiltration signature"
Backblaze filed that one. I had to explain what a backup was to their L1. Took four messages. They wanted a screenshot of my rclone config with keys redacted, which I did, then they asked me to unredact them "for verification purposes"
I pay for this service
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I was reading this thread and I thought I should tell you all about my backup situation because its very important and I had toast with marmalade for breakfast this morning and my cat Mr whiskers was sitting on the keyboard while I was trying to configure rsync and the weather was rainy which always makes my internet slower for some reason I think its the old wiring in this building from 1987 when they installed the phone lines and anyway I use Contabo for my main host and then I backup to another host I found on some forum that costs only three dollars per year yes three dollars and I thought this was a great deal and the first time they lost everything I thought okay everyone has bad days but then the second time it happened I realized maybe three dollars is not enough for reliability and Mr whiskers knocked over my coffee when I got the second email saying "we regret to inform you" and now I have a stain on my desk and I still have no backups well I have the ones on the three dollar host but those are gone so I guess I have nothing and nobody reads my posts anyway
Anyway I did this once too, idk why I do this, found some "lifetime" $2 host on a discord at 3am, wrote a cron that piped tar into ssh and called it a day
0 4 * * * tar czf - /data | ssh -i /root/.ssh/backup cheapo@host rm -rf /backups/* && tar xzf - -C /backups/
Yes that rm -rf is real. Yes I ran it. Yes they went down before I tested restore.
Backblaze only now. The graphs don't lie but my 3am brain does
