For a while I have stored my backups in S3. It's around 3 TB of data.
I'm looking forwards to a secondary service for a second back up.
Don't need fancy or GUI stuff, just the ability to upload from Linux CLI and/or API, with preferably a sync tool (think "aws s3 sync"), and an online tool to watch what's in it.
Any suggestions for places that aren't mega dodgy or do any kind of tracking? EU preferred too.
@derickr I use rsync.net. It's a place you can rsync data over SSH. That's it, that's the service. Schedule it yourself with cron, etc. By far the cheapest service as of when I was reviewing options a few years ago.
I don't know if they have EU data centers, though.
@Crell @derickr I particularly like the combination with restic and its encryption. There are literally only useless binary blobs on the B2 storage, so I don't really care where in the world the stuff is physically hosted. Without my local encryption key, they can't do anything with it. Of course that also kills half of the service offerings by backblaze, but i don't need those ;)
Only of course requires you to keep an external backup of that key somewhere :)
@theseer @Crell @derickr Not object storage but maybe a good addition: We use Borg for encrypted off-site backups and it works great and silently creating backups in the background. Works for workstation and servers likewise. You can use Borgbase or host it your own, Hetzner's Storage Box offering supports Borg, too.
https://www.borgbase.com/
https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box
@robert @Crell @derickr What made you pick borg over restic? Just curious, because they seem to be quite comparable in features and how they operate.
We (obviously?) also automated the backup to run in the background: We have a daily rsync (keeping history backlog of 1W) onto a dedicated local harddisk and run restic from there to backblaze.
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