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Syncthing compression1/1/2024 Borgbackup does both deduplication and compression.These numbers (even though they are competitive on their own) actually come with another caveat: The storage gets cheaper in bulk with an (in my opinion) nicely degressing price curve for private individuals. It turns out that Hetzner offers something called Storagebox which is what it says: A managed server with no root access, but rather a well-defined number of storage access interfaces (sftp, borg, Samba, NFS.) you can use from over the world. Just as a benchmark, I looked at what Hetzner had to offer, and their offer is actually already quite nice and above all competitive to Dropbox in price! So I kept looking, and checked some VPS offers. This offer allows every tool as long as it speaks SSH, so syncthing is right out. The first Terabyte costs you $180/yr, the second to tenth Terabyte will be half as expensive. One of the first offers I found was the Borgbackup no-support expert package by. Let's use Dropbox (with new prices) as a benchmark: Price I soon found out that privately hosted storage is still not super cheap, and on the first glance Dropbox is actually pretty competitive in price. Find a new cloud hoster which supports both Borgbackup and Syncthing, so I can have both my daily backups and real-time syncing. Set-up my FTP server with Borgbackup, and have it collect my backups daily (that part is actually already done.).So my current plan is something like the following: Also the lack of (open source)Ĭlient encryption in Dropbox always caused me some uncomfortableness. Simply sharing stuff wherever on the file system. In addition, I would like to do more flexible syncing. I am a mostly happy Dropbox Pro customer, but a price hike of approx +30% is unacceptable. Dropbox raised its prices which caused me to cancel my auto-renewal.I really want to try syncthing out, it seems to be the first solution that has a delta algorithm on par with Dropbox.Borgbackup (or its competitor restic) are pretty much the end-all for filesystem-based backups (block-based content aware deduplication, compression, encryption, integrity checking, scheduled pruning.)Īmazing for somebody like me who does not yet have zfs and only recently warmed up to LVM snapshots.I recently found exciting new technologies.Losing more than a week of work is unacceptable. The data loss was not catastrophic, but the backups were older than I liked. I don't know what exactly happened (best guess is a bead of sweat dripped onto the electronics), but long story short the HDD motor controller releases its magic smoke and my HDD was toast. I intended to hot-copy over from the old HDD to the SSD, so I did not make a backup first. I bought a new SSD, and put it into my PC.I need some temporary "swap space" to get a ZFS or btrfs or whatever set up. All of those disks are formatted as ext4 in a simple RAID.I found (to my biggest surprise!) that all 8 HDDs survived those 4 years of not spinning, and also an entirety of 4 moves in that time. I finally reactivated my FTP server from cold storage.Why am I doing that now? I just recently hit the perfect storm. I am currently trying to rebuild my Backup strategy from the bottom up.
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