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I've been hopping between idrive e2 plans to save money for my cloud backups (which I've never had to restore from). But this time, even with their discounts, it's just going to be too expensive to sustain.

I read that a Hetzner Storage Box might be a good option. It's relatively cheap ~$13 USD / 5tb a month (I'm in Canada, so currency conversion will make that higher).

They are located in Germany, and support Hyperbackup via Rsync.

I've never used their service, so I'm looking for feedback.

Edit: Thank you so much guys. Before my idrive e2 subscription ends, I'll be setting up a Storage Box!

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[–] RealBot@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Does rsync have some option for encrypted file copying? So that storage providers can't see file content?

[–] peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange 1 points 22 hours ago

@Showroom7561 you can pipe the files thru encryption ( and rename them) then send the files @RealBot

[–] jonathantrott@mastodon.au 1 points 3 days ago

@RealBot have a look at rclone.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Synology's Hyper backup can be encrypted, so yes for my use case.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 points 3 days ago

No, but you can encrypt before sending the data, or use something like restic.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 3 days ago

Not sure, but they also support Borg, which definitely does.