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Cheapest way to back up a lot of data? (pawb.social)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Inkstainthebat@pawb.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello!! Some recent technical problems on my family's NAS gave me a big scare and finally pushed me to figure out a way to back it all up. I'm asking here specifically because I really don't know where to even starts because of the fact I've got just under 50 terabytes worth of data stored in a 7-disk RAID-5 and would prefer to keep it cheap. What are your suggestions?

Edit: thank you for all the suggestions, I'll probably be considering using Backblaze for backups, or perhaps seeing if I can scrounge up old unused disks from people I know. Thank you all again <3

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[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Oops, I didn't know about the SX line, and didn't know they had auction servers with large amounts of disk space. Thanks!! I'm not familiar with all of Hetzner'a products.

For pure file storage (ie you're only using SFTP, Borgbackup, restic, NFS, Samba, etc) I still think the storage boxes are a good deal, as you don't have to worry about server maintenance (since it's a shared environment). I'm not sure if supports encryption though, which is probably where a dedicated server would be useful.

[–] crater2150@feddit.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if supports encryption though, which is probably where a dedicated server would be useful.

Well, ideally you encrypt your data before transferring, so the provider never sees your data. I'm using a storagebox to backup btrfs incremental snapshots (using btrbk) and just AES encrypt them locally before sending them over, so I don't care if the storagebox itself is encrypted.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Definitely... I use Borgbackup for my backups, which encrypts the backups before sending them to the remote server. Not all use cases can do that though, so sometimes it's useful to have filesystem-level encryption.