SayCyberOnceMore

Another +1 for Hetzner.

I did an initial backup of my music (so I wasn’t concerned about encryption) with plain old rsync to get a feel for the system first, do a restore, etc. to feel comfortable with it all - and see if there were any hidden costs.

Then I wiped all that and moved over to rclone to encrypt my data into different chunks (photos, music, work, etc)

It all worked well and they even skipped charging me 1 month becuase I hadn’t exceeded their minimum charge (rolls up to the following month)

I’ve had proactive emails from them notifying me of work which might have reduced my ability to access their system, but ad it was outside the time of my backups, then no issue.

A post introducing a graphical web-based system would be remiss if an image of that graphical system was missing.

Of course you can block those posts (if that function is.enabled) , but you’d be missing out on many discussions.

No worries, I don’t have a time limit on responses 😉

But… I took somethong like ~3 days to get an initial baxkup done.

Then ~3 years later I was at a different provider doing the same thing.

What I did do differently was to split the data into different backup pools (ie photos, music, work, etc) rather than 1 monolithic pool… that’ll make a difference.

What’s your recovery needs?

It’s ok to take 6 months to backup to a cloud provider, but do you need all your data to be recovered in a short period of time? If so, cloud isn’t the solution, you’d need a duplicate set of drives nearby (but not close enough for the same flood, fire, etc.

But, if you’re ok waiting for the data to download again (and check the storage provider costs for that specific scenario), then your main factor is how much data changes after that initial 1st upload.