Does rsync have some option for encrypted file copying? So that storage providers can't see file content?
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Synology's Hyper backup can be encrypted, so yes for my use case.
No, but you can encrypt before sending the data, or use something like restic.
Not sure, but they also support Borg, which definitely does.
I've got the 20TB box for my Jellyfin library. Works great.
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.
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.
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.
It's one of the view cloud storage options that have an official tutorial to get it working: https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/synology-hyperbackup-to-storagebox
Some other options I've come across don't support webdav, rsync, or anything else that might make life easier. LOL
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.
I use it with borg from Canada and I've tested it with restic with very few issues. It'll probably be fine for you for mass backup. I have previously tried using it in a more real time situation and that wasn't so great from western Canada.
Couldn't be happier with them. They just work and announce ahead of time about any maintenance. Have a storage box from them for backups and a vps for other uses. I do my backups with pika-backup (a borg frontend).
Using it to backup from a QNAP. Works very well and hassle-free. I'm using the QNAP backup app, but would be just as easy with any other tool. Just make sure to encrypt the backups.
I am using them on a small storage box (around 2tb) and I am quite happy with it. One of the things that I particularly liked is the documentation. If you have a use case for rsync, Borg backup or others, it's probably covered in their documentation (plus, never had an outage or issue with my data). I didn't use their support at this point, but ibheard good things about it as well.
I've been using one of their 20TB boxes for backups for about a year now. I use restic. No issues whatsoever.
No idea about their storage boxes. But I've rented dedicated servers from them for a long time. Both as a corporate and private customer. Never had a problem. Support was always great. Sometimes even Mr Hetzner himself would step in.
Storage box networking can be hit and miss. It's ok for incremental uploads, but I went through hell and back to get the initial backup finish, which makes me wonder what it would take to download it in case I have to.
Scp breaks off once in a while, and WebDAV terminates the session. I didn’t try smb as I feel it's a rather weird protocol for the public internet. In the end, I figured it's not the networking per se, it's something with the timeouts on the remote, and I was able to finish the backup using a Hetzner-hosted server as a jumpbox.
But it's cheap, yeah.
A coworker uses it as backup and he is happy about it. I have rented an auction server (a dedicated server) from them and on it is my Nextcloud and stuff and I backup my NAS to my Nextcloud and my Server to my NAS via WebDAV. Zero issues. I had once contact with their technical support, because a Harddrive failed. I was a low priority case but they handled my case exceptionally fast. Opened the ticket on a Friday after a holiday on 23:09 and at 23:51 the hard drive was changed.