Comment on Cheapest way to back up a *lot* of data?
dan@upvote.au 6 days agoOops, 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.
crater2150@feddit.org 5 days ago
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.
dan@upvote.au 4 days ago
Definitely… I use Borgbackup for my backups, which encrypts the backups before sending them to the remote server. Not all use cases can do that though, for example some use cases where you mount the storage using iSCSI or NFS.