sFTP/FTP Backup destination

adil

Hetzner provide a very very cheap sFTP storage box with a lot of storage space, it will be great as alternative to S3.

msimon

Would love to see this as well <3
For now I just put a cheap Hetzner VPS in front of the Storage Box and installed minio on it.
Works great plus you can mount two SBs (1x in Falkenstein & 1x in Helsinki) and have minio push its data to both, so you have more backup resillience.

adil

msimon

Can you please share any info about this setup ? I tried before and didn't work for me!

badboybackagain

gozen

msimon I would like to know more about this.

gozen

I believe that sFTP/FTP backup destination is something a lot of people need.

...or at least any good workaround.

ekebyte

any update about this features?

twest

ekebyte no

slimx

I've used the Hetzner one and will say that it is quite slow and not really "cheap".
If you want cheap my honest advice is iDrive S3 Storage it's probably one of the best.

I have a referral link that give you a discout and you only pay yearly.
https://app.idrivee2.com/partner/webv8 its like $20 a year or something.

gozen

slimx I am Not sure if it's that cheap, except for the first year with their promo.

adil

slimx Hetzner one and will say that it is quite slow and not really "cheap".

Did you use it with Enhance or other panels?

slimx

If you scroll down a bit there's a button that says "Go back to yearly plans" and its like.. 3 year deals for super cheap.

sikmo

Well, the full price (not promo price) is 3.3 USD / TB / month. Hetzner storage is 3.6 USD to 2.27 USD. Which seems fair enough.

tofandel

1 TB is 124$ for 3 years now on your link.. I wouldn't call that cheap either. I can buy and own a 4 TB drive for that price.

With those prices it might be interesting to invest into self hosted on site NAS with 4 bays running a S3 storage, since that would work with enhance (as opposed to the default backup which is impossible to get working..). This is just for cold storage backup mostly, so the current "cloud" prices for that use case are not very endearing..

Kosta

tofandel how about the electricity and uplink bill to maintain your own hardware..? It’s not just hard drive cost..

xyzulu

tofandel as opposed to the default backup which is impossible to get working

This is by far the best option. You should get the default backup working. It's better than the S3 backups. If you want to self host, just self host an Ubuntu 24.0.4 server as your Enhance backup destination server.

I'm not sure why the default backup is so hard to get working for you, but you might like to contact Enhance support since it's obviously something they fully support.