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Looking for a good, cheap backup solution. (midwest.social)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I've been using pCloud to back up only the most important information. The stuff that's hard to get back if something bad happens. Kept in sync with rclone.

Now I think it's time to scale up. I have 1 computer with 4 hard drives plugged up to it. I want to either back up the whole things. I'm thinking of something like backblaze. What does everyone here do for backups?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

borg backup with rsync.net

Borg does de-duplication and compression, I've used it for multiple things like backing up minecraft servers and it can reduce the final backup size by a lot (like 1-2 TBs to a hundred of GB, though that was with content that was highly compressible and didn't change much over-time so the deduplication did a lot too).

There is also borgbase.com which looks a bit better and focuses only on borg repositories instead of also being compatible with just about any usual tools (eg rsync, rclone etc)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Borg is also supported by Hetzner Storage Boxes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Would you trust rsync.net to be around for a long time? They're doing a $540 lifetime 1TB offer which is interesting as I'm luckily in a position to do but would take 6 years plus to "pay off".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

they already have been around for a long time, i used them for about 8 years (if i remember correctly), before switching to borgbase last years because of the notifications they can send you when no backup has happened for a specific time, which rsync.net can't 😐

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd second this suggestion, I've used borg with rsync.net for the past 4 years and it's been great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Rsync.net has a discounted "Borg" account https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html Which seems to be basically no support and no zfs versioning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That seems way more expensive than hetzner. 1TB would be 12$ per month if my math is correct