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What's the cheapest backup storage that isn't a scam?

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steveipw

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#11

RAID is not a backup. ZFS send to Hetzner Storage Box is a backup. I have 8TB on their 9.50 EUR plan, send incrementals nightly, never needed to pull more than a few hundred MB for restore.

The 10 concurrent connections limit is annoying. You hit it with multiple datasets and have to queue.

zfs send | zfs receive. repeat.
harbourops

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5 #12

steveipw said:
10 concurrent connections limit

Confirmed. Their Nextcloud integration documentation mentions this nowhere. I found out when a client with 40 sites tried to sync simultaneously.

For the original question: if you want cheapest and are not a scam, Hetzner Storage Box or Backblaze B2 depending on your egress pattern. Wasabi only if your data is stable and you never delete.

YU

Member

#13

linaplex said:
Backblaze B2 because they have a Manila POP

POP does not mean storage is there. Backblaze datacenters are only Sacramento and Phoenix. The Manila POP is Cloudflare or similar, edge cache for download, not for upload.

Upload from Bangalore to US west is 220ms and throughput dies after 10MB. B2 is not designed for South Asia.

kate3

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#14

YUKI24 said:
Not designed for South Asia

Nothing is designed for South Asia except AWS Mumbai and maybe Wasabi's ap-northeast-1 which they keep very quiet about.

The real cheapest backup is the one you test restore from monthly. I don't care if it's $2/TB if the restore fails.

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marcus_qc

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#15

kate3 said:
Test restore from monthly

My friend you are right actually I make test restore every month for my wordpress people, one time I find the backup is corrupt because the plugin make zip over 2GB and the zip is broken

Now I use rsync and I check the checksum, no more zip

42U and still growing
MA

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#16

marcus_qc said:
Zip over 2GB and the zip is broken

This is why we have tar. Or restic. Or borg. Or anything made after 2005.

I am in Milan, Hetzner Nuremberg is 12ms, I use borg to Storage Box. The 4 EUR plan is enough for 15 small sites. Incremental deduplication means I keep 30 days of history in less than 200GB.

For big data I would use Wasabi. For small data with history, borg to Hetzner is cheapest and not a scam.

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