Submitted 2 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
I would like to use a cloud backup service on my home server. I am a complete beginner. I purchased a subscription for Proton Drive, but it looks like that just won’t work. Is there a secure cloud backup that works well on Linux? Those points if there’s a way to use proton drive. Extra bonus points, if I can set it up for automatic backups through a GUI.
I’ve loved using Backblaze B2 buckets. Been using them for years and it’s very reasonable. Many different backup titles can use them.
Maybe consider a Hetzner storage box. They support borg, restic, rsync and probably more, there’s no ingress or egress fees and you get unlimited traffic. Very nice for off-site backups if, like myself, you’re on a limited budget.
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I‘ve been using a Hetzner Storage Box with Kopia via SFTP and were able to completely saturate my 500 Mbit/s upload.
I’m also maxing out my connection now… At roughly 5 up.
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You can try rclone, but their Proton integration is in beta
rclone.org/protondrive/
So there’s a storage protocol called “S3” (I wanna say it stands for simple scalable storage?), first created by Amazon for AWS. Many types of software, including backup programs, have been designed to use it as a storage backend. There are now many S3 compatible providers as well, last I looked the best value was backblaze B2.
You need a backup program with end-to-end encryption, S3 compatibility, and whatever other features you like. I use restic but it’s CLI only, there’s also borg backup and many others.
If you encrypt locally with a good key, you don’t have to trust the remote storage provider. They just see a bunch of meaningless noise. Just don’t lose the key or your backup is useless.
If you make a backup with a tool like Borg that creates encrypted archives, then using AWS S3 glacier is the cheapest.
What’s bad about it: if you ever need those files again, it’s going to be VERY expensive to download them again, so it has to be treated as the “what if a nuke hits my city and all the local and off-site backups are vaporized” solution
Also: it’s not recommended to directly host plain files, they need to be in an archive format with big chunks, as the API calls that are used to list them during sync are counted in a very expensive way
I use rsync.net, it’s not as cheap as some, but I like the simplicity of storage I can access with rsync, rclone, sshfs etc.
You can run some commands remotely too, so I used rclone to copy my OneDrive files directly from the cloud files to rsync.net. Not through my PC.
I personally use restic for local backups which then get synced with rclone into a Hetzner Storage Box.
Run a transparent encryption program and buy a Google drive subscription of 2TB for a year for $100.
Cryptomator encrypts voulumes you can store/sync anywhere.
Except the CLI hasn’t been updated in ages
R2 has no ingress or egress fees
asap@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Any cloud is an easy secure backup on Linux if you use rclone crypt :)