I’ve been hopping between idrive e2 plans to save money for my cloud backups (which I’ve never had to restore from). But this time, even with their discounts, it’s just going to be too expensive to sustain.
I read that a Hetzner Storage Box might be a good option. It’s relatively cheap ~$13 USD / 5tb a month (I’m in Canada, so currency conversion will make that higher).
They are located in Germany, and support Hyperbackup via Rsync.
I’ve never used their service, so I’m looking for feedback.
Edit: Thank you so much guys. Before my idrive e2 subscription ends, I’ll be setting up a Storage Box!
I’ve got the 20TB box for my Jellyfin library. Works great.
I have used some Hetzner products for some time now, including the Storage Box. The services they provide are great. My NAS backs up my important data to the Storage Box, and it just works fine. Sometimes I get emails that they need to do maintenance, but I never disturb my work. I think you can give it a try.
I use a Hetzner Storage Box as extra storage to my Hetzner VPS. It almost feels like the storage is directly attached. We serve thousands of archives and binaries and have absolutely no problems. It’s fast and decently reliable (except some downtime I once experienced). The initial file access time might not be the best but the bandwidth is great.
Not for a Synology, but I doubt Hetzner cares where the data comes from. Works well, especially once you got the keys in place. Have stored and restored, it’s a simple file storage.
Does rsync have some option for encrypted file copying? So that storage providers can’t see file content?
Not sure, but they also support Borg, which definitely does.
No, but you can encrypt before sending the data, or use something like restic.
Synology’s Hyper backup can be encrypted, so yes for my use case.
@RealBot have a look at rclone.
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What does the price per hour mean?
From what I understand, they charge “by the hour”, so if you use less than a month, you get charged for the number of hours instead.
It’s not an egress or added charge… from what I understand 😬
I back up my Proxmox VMs/LXCs and Home Assistant to my Synology NAS which then gets sent off to Hetzner Storage Box (among other places). Just set it up a couple of months ago. Was easy to set up and haven’t had to touch it since. Just made me realize, however, I havent tested a retrieval and spin-up from the storage box yet…I should get on that.
