TomCan anyone recommend an off-site storage backup vendor like rsync.net (an American company), but who is based in Europe?
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EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions so far!! ❤️
FrankHow about renting a server and have your own backup ?
The major (german?) rental server providers do always offer "refurbished" for quite low prices.
@rincewind Extra server for backup is in the future but kinda need something now.
advokatt@pertho @hetzner read https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/access/access-ssh-rsync-borg though -- have to use port 23
patpro@pertho borgbase.com maybe ?
ping @borgbackup
st3fan@pertho If you can deal with BORG or RESTIC
https://www.borgbase.com/ (Malta-based company)
We also implement the data protection measures outlined by the EU's GDPR and you can choose between the EU and United States as backup location.
@pertho
yes, it is available in my account and written on the start page as 2nd title on top
https://www.borgbase.com/
Simple and Secure Offsite Backups
Hosting for Borg and Restic Repositories
From $2/month, 10 GB free forever
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Does require #borg or #restic to be used as the backup tool.
Also, AlphaVPS have some decent prices on a VPS with tonnes of [slow] storage. It's slow because it's designed for backups and not constant use I.e. storage back ends. Works great, I use a couple of ZFS snapshot storage
https://alphavps.com/storage-vps#plans
thedoctor@thedoctor @pertho yes, I have FreeBSD installed on one of my servers and Alpine installed on another.
Both manual installs using netboot.xyz as the included image if FreeBSD uses UFS.
I think currently the netboot.xyz install of FreeBSD doesn't work as it's 14.1-RELEASE that the installer can't map a repo too. So using Alpine or Debian and installing ZFS would be the next easiest way.
@thedoctor @pertho of course, ZFS isn't the only option... I also have garage running as an S3-compatible endpoint, or you can also just do borg/restic/rsync archives to whatever image you wish to run on the server
@paul @pertho Sure sure, it's just that I already have a ZFS pool at home but no target to replicate to for backups so I have to backup in another way which is not quite optimal. So far, I wasn't able to find providers that either offer ZFS directly or don't charge an arm an a leg for storage attached to a virtual machine I can set up myself.
This is the first one that is surprisingly cheap. Which of the alphavps instances are you using?
This is the first one that is surprisingly cheap. Which of the alphavps instances are you using?
@thedoctor @pertho ah, cool, yeah AlphaVPS are a good option then.
You'll need to do a manual install of your favourite ZFS compatible OS, netboot.xyz (which is an available image to boot from once you have a VPS) is how you'd do that. Not worth bothering with ZFS on root for a backup host. Just install root on a small ext4 partition, then install the ZFS packages, enable services and create your pools and datasets.
I have a 2TB and 4TB storageVPS
https://alphavps.com/storage-vps#plans
I think one is in Sofia and the other is in Nuremberg.
The support are pretty great as well.
You'll need to do a manual install of your favourite ZFS compatible OS, netboot.xyz (which is an available image to boot from once you have a VPS) is how you'd do that. Not worth bothering with ZFS on root for a backup host. Just install root on a small ext4 partition, then install the ZFS packages, enable services and create your pools and datasets.
I have a 2TB and 4TB storageVPS
https://alphavps.com/storage-vps#plans
I think one is in Sofia and the other is in Nuremberg.
The support are pretty great as well.
@thedoctor @pertho yep, you just get one big disk that if you install an OS yourself you can partition as you like.
@thedoctor @pertho I guess you could use a predefined image, shrink the partition that fills up the entire space and then create a new ZFS partition, but I suspect you'd have to go into a recovery mode to resize the root partition which is probably more of a fuss than just installing a fresh OS and have the partitions as you want them
James C@pertho Using restic for homelab backups and I've pointed my offsites at OVH Cloud's S3 compatible object storage: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/public-cloud/object-storage/ Happy so far.
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philiplooks like rsync.net has a location in Zurich?
EDIT: ah yes, I forgot the cloud act
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EDIT: ah yes, I forgot the cloud act
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Dr. Fyzziks@pertho hetzner storage boxes work very well for me. You can access them via a number of different protocols/methods, including rsync:
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