¡The colo box mine needs backup offsite! The budget $20 monthly it is, the data 4TB important. ¡The rule 3-2-1 I know, but the wallet thin! ¿What solutions cheap vos use? The providers cloud expensive are, the retrieval surprise billing gives. ¡I need wisdom practical!
Tarsnap plus friend with fiber and a raspberry pi in another city done
Wesh sofialund le server حلو but le backup ? Incha'allah the drives don't die... I use GreenCloudVPS cold tier (https://greencloudvps.com) for the important only... the rest ? Tape to my cousin in Marseille... postage cheaper than egress... French logic...
4TB for $20? That's actually tight. Ngl I ran the math on glacier deep once, retrieval woulda been $180 just to test. For my training checkpoints I do zfs send to a CloudCone kvm I got on black friday, $15/year 1TB, then encrypt and forget. Not 3-2-1 proper but the llms can be retrained...
My "offsite" is an old dell in my mum's laundry cupboard in christchurch? Sweet as, gigabit fiber there, rsync nightly? Yeah nah it's not proper dr but chur for $0 and a six pack at christmas? She thinks it's a "computer thing" for my "internet job"
I run MinIO on a $5 Vultr instance in another region, replicate with rclone crypt, reverse proxy through traefik with docker compose. Add a cronjob, monitor with uptime kuma. 3-2-1 on $20? Trivial. The real cost is the learning, but that's the point. You're not renting peace of mind, you're building it.
Vultr at $5.99 retained? The $20 budget holds
What region is the Vultr instance in
OwnerSeeker: I run mine in Vultr's New Jersey datacenter, replicate to London for real offsite. Ping is fine for async backup.
New Jersey works for me, latency to Portland isn't terrible. Is the $5 plan enough for 4TB though?
