I have not thought this through yet but am curious to hear what others might think. Two ideas, basically. The first is simply: how about using a Hetzner Storage box as Duplicati backend? Prices seem to be rather competitive, especially if you want more than 1TB storage. If that is an option, which …

If you do not expect frequent large scale restores, Backblaze B2 seems cheaper up until 10 TB (at which point it comes down to USD EUR exchange rate…). Not entirely sure what the VPS would really buy you (unless you want to run some cronjob the regularly scans the whole repository which sounds inter…

[image] Gabriel_Ambuehl: If you do not expect frequent large scale restores, Backblaze B2 seems cheaper up until 10 TB Yes, I realize that the Hetzner prices are exclusive VAT, so if you have to add VAT, you are right. Plus, with B2 you are only paying for while with Hetzner you have to upgra…

[image] tophee: it would be quite an improvement if duplicati didn’t have to download samples of the archive to check it but if the files would be checked server side… I think the level of improvement varies depending on you hardware and needs. That being said… [image] How often does dupl…

I am already using a Hetzner storagebox with Duplicati 2 on my QNAP NAS for several months. Works great with WebDAV and FTP.

[image] tophee: it would be quite an improvement if duplicati didn’t have to download samples of the archive to check it but if the files would be checked server side… And with larger backups, just checking the backend files can take a while: [image] WebDAV vs S3 vs SFTP Com…

Using a VPS to download and check the backups would obviously satisfy the ultimate in “are my backups actually there” paranoia (nefarious cloud provider might also just give you the hashes back that you expect if we ever get a feature that scans cloud hashes instead of downloading random files for s…

Hetzner Storage Box as Duplicati backend

JonMikelV September 25, 2017, 1:19am 4

I think the level of improvement varies depending on you hardware and needs. That being said…