22 points by jacobwilliamroy 5 days ago
I'm talking about greater than 5 TB in size. Rclone looks really good because I can just give it a bandwidth limit, point it at google drive and fire and forget. But I'm curious if that is the best way to do this? What does HN think?
Like so many things, it depends-
How quickly do you need to be able to restore? Is it commercial or homelab?
The most cost-effective option by far would be to put a NAS device someplace offsite. You could use tailscale to connect to it remotely.
After that, depending on your access patterns, either a glacier-style s3 service (aws or backblaze/etc), or a rented bare-metal server with big disks some place inexpensive.
This is for a "warm" backup as opposed to a hot backup so restoration timeline would be like seven days.
I would start by going to https://diskprices.com/?locale=us to anchor my price expectations accordingly.
Syncthing will do a 1 to 1 connection if possible, else it will use a relay server. Traffic is encrypted. Open source. After the initial setup of marrying the devices together, it's just a matter of starting the application. Pretty much what you want?
Rclone with aws s3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class is about $1 a month per TB.
I didn’t use rclone. I just used native AWS cli commands. But I’m an AWS guy and already had my own seldom used AWS account.
Restore takes from 12 (more expensive) to 48 hours (cheaper)
I'm using Borg and Hetzner Storage Box. 5TB is nothing much. Big used to mean petabytes, but maybe petabytes aren't big any more either.
It's just bigger than any amount I've ever dealt with in my whole life (I'm 30) and also it's hard to find solutions to manage it without running into bandwidth caps and also things are running for a very long time on the client side: days or weeks.
Probably just above normal b2c backup services, and below company requirements
I need to know what people are doing recently because most of the documentation I'm finding online is from 3-5 years ago and I want the most up-to-date information.
People are doing pretty much exactly what they were doing 3-5 years ago, software has been pretty good for a while no so there hasn't been much change.
This needs more information. 5TB is far from "BIG" when it comes to cloud backups.
You can probably get away with google drive+rclone+borg/restic/whatever, but it will be rather clunky. Backblaze might be a nicer backend to use.
I use rsync.net with borg, but not sure about your budget. Their 1TB lifetime plan is very competitive though.