borgmatic VS storj

- for important files, a separate box where I have borgmatic [1] in deduplication mode installed; this is updated once in a while

Just curious: Do you have any reason to believe that such a data corruption bug is likely in ZFS? It seems like saying that ext4 could have a bug and you should also store stuff on NTFS, just in case (which I think does not make sense..).

[1]: https://github.com/borgmatic-collective/borgmatic

Not really dumb. I do use them too but with Borgbackup on the top (since they support it natively).

I found Borgmatic ( https://torsion.org/borgmatic/ ) to be the best way to run my backups. It takes care of everything from pruning to verifying the checksum etc... and it integrates with some monitoring (like cronitor).

So Borgmatic + rsync.net is the best combo

For backups I use Borg myself. If you need a GUI, you can use Vorta or Pika. With borgmatic, there is also a wrapper that extends the range of functions of Borg.

For those of you not familiar, borgmatic is a very convenient tool which runs as a wrapper around borg.

I recommend Borg and Borgmatic. Automated, easy to setup, capable of notifying you if anything happens, deduplication and compression makes backups smaller, etc.

To add to this, Borg backup can be a little daunting to configure. There is a wrapper script called Borgmatic that distills it down to a single yaml config file. There are also some cloud hosts like BorgBase and rsync.net with native Borg support.

I don't know, I only know the tool by name. I myself use Borg for years. If you want a graphical interface, you can use Vorta or Pika. With borgmatic there is a wrapper for Borg that extends or improves the functionality.

a good alternative to that would be borg, if you want a slightly easier way to automate then use borgmatic, both available in the official community mirrors.

Storj is based on blockchain technology and peer-to-peer protocols to provide secure, private, and encrypted cloud storage.

You can even make money from storj.io !

I mentioned it yesterday, but I will mention it again... take a look at Storj. [0].

Storj pricing is basically unbeatable. $4/TB/month, $7/TB/month for egress bandwidth which (I heard, yet to try) can be saved further if you put something like cloudflare in front of your bucket.

Speaking as someone who set up their own minio cluster (on Hetzner) as a way to have object storage at the lowest cost possible, if Storj was an option 3 years ago, I would have saved me quite a bit of money and time.

[0]: https://storj.io

Storj — Decentralised Private Cloud Storage for Apps and Developers. Free plan provides 1 Project, 150 GB storage, 150 GB bandwidth per month.

I'd recommend Storj for free S3-compatible backup storage, I've set up automated backups for my servers

Kopia is also an option. Very easy to use and has an intuitive config file to configure everything. Supports a decent amount of storages natively. Can use with rclone as well for more storage options. I use restic personally and works great. Paired with rclone and I backup to storj.io

This sub loves to hate on blockchain tech but decentralized cloud services are an answer to this issue eventually, but it just started. Some examples would be filecoin, sia, arweave, 0cain, lambda, storj, ipfs, runonflux, btfs, etc.