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just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

First: there is no cheap way to back this amount of data up. AWS Glacier would be about $200/mo, PLUS bandwidth transfer charges, which would be something like $500. R2 would be about $750/mo, no transfer charges. So assume that most companies with some sort of whacky, competing product would be billed by either of these companies with you as a consumer, and you can figure out how this is the baseline of what you’ll be getting charged from them.

50TB of what? If it’s just readily available stuff you can download again, skip backing that up. Only keep personal effects, and see how much you can reduce this number by.

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utjebe@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Damn, I would have thought that glacier would be cheaper and they would claw your eyes out on egress and access.

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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Bb would be ~300$/month for 50tb

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dan@upvote.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

AWS Glacier would be about $200/mo, PLUS bandwidth transfer charges, which would be something like $500. R2 would be about $750/mo

50TB on a Hetzner storage box would be $116/month. It’d have to be split across three storage boxes though, since 20TB is the max per box. 10TB is $24/month and 20TB is $46/month.

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- zutto@lemmy.fedi.zutto.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  You can have more than 2x 22tb, the SX line is full of storage servers!
  
  SX65 2x 1TB nvme 4x 22tb (~104€ 0%VAT) SX135 2x 2tb nvme 8x 22tb (~204€ 0%VAT) SX295 2x 8tb nvme 14x 22tb (~384 0%VAT)
  
  If you manually add the disks to configurations like AX-line, there is a limit, that may be bypassed if you contact hetzners support, but that’d be expensive compared to the SX line I reckon.
  
  Also, Hetzner’s server auction has quite affordable 4x 16tb servers, starting from 63€ 0%VAT, that’d be pretty affordable RAID1- solution, ~1€ per TB/month.
  
  Unlimited traffic on all of the above, and a sidenote: SX line servers have one-off setup fees, server auction has no setup fees.
  
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  - dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Oops, I didn’t know about the SX line. Thanks!! I’m not familiar with all of Hetzner’a products.
    
    For pure file storage (ie you’re only using SFTP, Borgbackup, restic, NFS, Samba, etc) I still think the storage boxes are a good deal, as you don’t have to worry about server maintenance (since it’s a shared environment). I’m not sure if supports encryption though, which is probably where a dedicated server would be useful.
    
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    crater2150@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    I’m not sure if supports encryption though, which is probably where a dedicated server would be useful.
    
    Well, ideally you encrypt your data before transferring, so the provider never sees your data. I’m using a storagebox to backup btrfs incremental snapshots (using btrbk) and just AES encrypt them locally before sending them over, so I don’t care if the storagebox itself is encrypted.
    
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