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What are you using now? Asking for a friend

by jgrizou 5mo ago

microtonal 5mo ago
I have used Arq for way over a decade. It does incremental encrypted backups and supports a lot of storage providers. Also supports S3 object lock (to protect against ransomware). It’s awesome!
- massysett 5mo ago
  How is the performance? For me it takes Arq over an hour just to scan my files for changes.
  - sreitshamer 5mo ago
    (Arq developer here) By default Arq tries to be unobtrusive. Edit your backup plan and slide the “CPU usage” slider all the way to the right to make it go faster.
e40 5mo ago
Wasabi + rclone works well for me. Previous BB customer.
mrighele 5mo ago
Not OP, but I have been using borg backup [1] against Hetzner Storage Box [2] Borg backup is a good tool in my opinion and has everything that I need (deduplication, compression, mountable snapshot. Hetzner Storage Box is nothing fancy but good enough for a backup and is sensibly cheaper for the alternatives (I pay about 10 eur/month for 5TB of storage) Before that I was using s3cmd [3] to backup on a S3 bucket. [1] https://www.borgbackup.org/ https://www.borgbackup.org/ [2] https://s3tools.org/s3cmd https://s3tools.org/s3cmd [3] https://s3tools.org/s3cmd https://s3tools.org/s3cmd
- mrighele 5mo ago
  I cannot edit any longer, the second link was supposed to be [2] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/
  - cortesoft 5mo ago
    Thanks, I was quite confused for a second
  - andriy_koval 5mo ago
    its not replicated like bb, right?
- cortesoft 5mo ago
  This is quite a bit more expensive than Backblaze if you have more than 5 TBs or so
GCUMstlyHarmls 5mo ago
I use rsync.net. You can use basically any SSH tool or rclone interface. They have a cheaper plan for "experts" if you want to forgo zfs snapshots,https://www.rsync.net/signup/order.html?code=experts https://www.rsync.net/signup/order.html?code=experts.
- ramses0 5mo ago
  rsync.net and rclone are great, my brain understood restic easier than borg for local backups over usb (ymmv), and plain old `rsync --archive` is most excellent wrt preserving file mod times and the like. There is 100% a difference between "dead data" (eg: movie.mp4) and "live data" (eg: a git directory with `chmod` attributes)- S3 and similar often don't preserve "attributes and metadata" without a special secondary pass, even though the `md5` might be the same.
  - GCUMstlyHarmls 5mo ago
    You can do restic+rsync.net too if you didn't know. `rclone serve restic --stdio` on their end exposes the restic REST server over stdio, then with some fiddling of restic, telling it to use rclone as the repo address, and configuring its rclone args to actually invoke `ssh rsync.net`. Again, with regards to my other comments, I am not affiliated with rsync, just rclone is cool. You can use the same trick with any host with ssh and rclone installed.
- 6ak74rfy 5mo ago
  Rsync.net is really really good. Just this weekend, my backup tool went rogue and exhausted quota on rsync.net (Some bad config by me on Borg.) Emailed them, they promptly added 100 GB storage for a day so that I could recover the situation. Plus, their product has been rock solid since a few years I've been using them.
  - subhobroto 5mo ago
    > Emailed them, they promptly added 100 GB storage for a day so that I could recover the situation Sorry to hear about your troubles. Hope your backup situation's sorted out? Do you recall if you used a link like this to sign up? https://www.rsync.net/signup/order.html?code=experts https://www.rsync.net/signup/order.html?code=experts If you don't, a good heuristic would be to see how much you pay per GB - if it's less than a cent, you probably did. The ones that come with support are typically a shade above per a cent per GB
neop1x 5mo ago
Restic to almost any cloud storage provider. It works perfectly, it is client-side encrypted with easily-configurable retention policies. I have been using it happily for many years (and also restored some files from the backups).

What are you using now? Asking for a friend

by jgrizou 5mo ago

What are you using now? Asking for a friend

I have used Arq for way over a decade. It does incremental encrypted backups and supports a lot of storage providers. Also supports S3 object lock (to protect against ransomware). It’s awesome!

massysett 5mo ago
How is the performance? For me it takes Arq over an hour just to scan my files for changes.
- sreitshamer 5mo ago
  (Arq developer here) By default Arq tries to be unobtrusive. Edit your backup plan and slide the “CPU usage” slider all the way to the right to make it go faster.

e40 5mo ago

Wasabi + rclone works well for me. Previous BB customer.

mrighele 5mo ago

Not OP, but I have been using borg backup [1] against Hetzner Storage Box [2] Borg backup is a good tool in my opinion and has everything that I need (deduplication, compression, mountable snapshot. Hetzner Storage Box is nothing fancy but good enough for a backup and is sensibly cheaper for the alternatives (I pay about 10 eur/month for 5TB of storage) Before that I was using s3cmd [3] to backup on a S3 bucket. [1] https://www.borgbackup.org/ https://www.borgbackup.org/ [2] https://s3tools.org/s3cmd https://s3tools.org/s3cmd [3] https://s3tools.org/s3cmd https://s3tools.org/s3cmd

mrighele 5mo ago
I cannot edit any longer, the second link was supposed to be [2] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/
- cortesoft 5mo ago
  Thanks, I was quite confused for a second
- andriy_koval 5mo ago
  its not replicated like bb, right?
cortesoft 5mo ago
This is quite a bit more expensive than Backblaze if you have more than 5 TBs or so

GCUMstlyHarmls 5mo ago

I use rsync.net. You can use basically any SSH tool or rclone interface. They have a cheaper plan for "experts" if you want to forgo zfs snapshots,https://www.rsync.net/signup/order.html?code=experts https://www.rsync.net/signup/order.html?code=experts.

ramses0 5mo ago
rsync.net and rclone are great, my brain understood restic easier than borg for local backups over usb (ymmv), and plain old `rsync --archive` is most excellent wrt preserving file mod times and the like. There is 100% a difference between "dead data" (eg: movie.mp4) and "live data" (eg: a git directory with `chmod` attributes)- S3 and similar often don't preserve "attributes and metadata" without a special secondary pass, even though the `md5` might be the same.
- GCUMstlyHarmls 5mo ago
  You can do restic+rsync.net too if you didn't know. `rclone serve restic --stdio` on their end exposes the restic REST server over stdio, then with some fiddling of restic, telling it to use rclone as the repo address, and configuring its rclone args to actually invoke `ssh rsync.net`. Again, with regards to my other comments, I am not affiliated with rsync, just rclone is cool. You can use the same trick with any host with ssh and rclone installed.
6ak74rfy 5mo ago
Rsync.net is really really good. Just this weekend, my backup tool went rogue and exhausted quota on rsync.net (Some bad config by me on Borg.) Emailed them, they promptly added 100 GB storage for a day so that I could recover the situation. Plus, their product has been rock solid since a few years I've been using them.
- subhobroto 5mo ago
  > Emailed them, they promptly added 100 GB storage for a day so that I could recover the situation Sorry to hear about your troubles. Hope your backup situation's sorted out? Do you recall if you used a link like this to sign up? https://www.rsync.net/signup/order.html?code=experts https://www.rsync.net/signup/order.html?code=experts If you don't, a good heuristic would be to see how much you pay per GB - if it's less than a cent, you probably did. The ones that come with support are typically a shade above per a cent per GB

neop1x 5mo ago

Restic to almost any cloud storage provider. It works perfectly, it is client-side encrypted with easily-configurable retention policies. I have been using it happily for many years (and also restored some files from the backups).