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I am working to find a cheaper solution for my personal backups that are about 3-4TB. Borgbase is too expensive. I bought a Hetzner Storage Box - 13 Euros a month for 5TB. That's insanely cheap. 3x cheaper than BorgBase. And it supports borg, sftp, webdav and more.

Currently I am trying a new app I found - Kopia - entirely open source and fast as hell. That plus Hetzner via webdav. So far so great. I will make an article after I decide how to move forward with the backups. Could be an interesting article in terms of how I manage to backup some 2-3TB of server files and some 3-4TB of personal files. Millions in total. Daily. Automated and encrypted.

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Thibault Molleman🇧🇪 🌈🐝
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I have also looked at Hetnzer's storage pods. DO KEEP IN MIND: they don't have redundancy

(by that I mean: yes, they do use RAID but it's all on one server.
If you compare that with Backblaze B2 for example: there it's more distributed across the entire data center)

While an OVHfire type situation would likely destroy an entire datacenter, with Backblaze it's possible that the only the affected area lost some data but not all of it.

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also: don't underestimate social connections: if you have friends who do self hosting things or have a NAS: ask if you could use some.

"Can I store x TB on your server if you get to store x TB on my server?"
Doesn't get much cheaper than that

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Sure if you have that, but I need 4-5TB....hard to find someone with so much diskspace to spare....
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it's suprising how often someone in your friend group might be an /r/datahoarder and has a ton of storage
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I understand but I am willing to take that risk. Hopefully no one blows up Hetzner datacenters :D. And if they do is ok, these are just backups. My personal files are safe on my laptop anyway and will do new backups.
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as long as you do 3-2-1 backup
There should be 3 copies of data
On 2 different media
With 1 copy being off-site
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I do not. I used to but not anymore. Costs more money and makes you glued to external drives. I need to find a balance between keeping my files safe and myself sane :). Most people do no backups. I do them to an online location and I think that's enough. Even if I lose them all no biggie I have my files on my computer I can start as new. :)
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