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.
I use a Hetzner Storage Box as extra storage to my Hetzner VPS. It almost feels like the storage is directly attached. We serve thousands of archives and binaries and have absolutely no problems. It’s fast and decently reliable (except some downtime I once experienced). The initial file access time might not be the best but the bandwidth is great.
Storage box networking can be hit and miss. It’s ok for incremental uploads, but I went through hell and back to get the initial backup finish, which makes me wonder what it would take to download it in case I have to.
Scp breaks off once in a while, and WebDAV terminates the session. I didn’t try smb as I feel it’s a rather weird protocol for the public internet. In the end, I figured it’s not the networking per se, it’s something with the timeouts on the remote, and I was able to finish the backup using a Hetzner-hosted server as a jumpbox.
But it’s cheap, yeah.
A coworker uses it as backup and he is happy about it. I have rented an auction server (a dedicated server) from them and on it is my Nextcloud and stuff and I backup my NAS to my Nextcloud and my Server to my NAS via WebDAV. Zero issues. I had once contact with their technical support, because a Harddrive failed. I was a low priority case but they handled my case exceptionally fast. Opened the ticket on a Friday after a holiday on 23:09 and at 23:51 the hard drive was changed.
I use it with borg from Canada and I’ve tested it with restic with very few issues. It’ll probably be fine for you for mass backup. I have previously tried using it in a more real time situation and that wasn’t so great from western Canada.
I back up my Proxmox VMs/LXCs and Home Assistant to my Synology NAS which then gets sent off to Hetzner Storage Box (among other places). Just set it up a couple of months ago. Was easy to set up and haven’t had to touch it since. Just made me realize, however, I havent tested a retrieval and spin-up from the storage box yet…I should get on that.
Using it to backup from a QNAP. Works very well and hassle-free. I’m using the QNAP backup app, but would be just as easy with any other tool. Just make sure to encrypt the backups.
I am using them on a small storage box (around 2tb) and I am quite happy with it. One of the things that I particularly liked is the documentation. If you have a use case for rsync, Borg backup or others, it’s probably covered in their documentation (plus, never had an outage or issue with my data). I didn’t use their support at this point, but ibheard good things about it as well.
Couldn’t be happier with them. They just work and announce ahead of time about any maintenance. Have a storage box from them for backups and a vps for other uses. I do my backups with pika-backup (a borg frontend).
I’ve been using one of their 20TB boxes for backups for about a year now. I use restic. No issues whatsoever.
No idea about their storage boxes. But I’ve rented dedicated servers from them for a long time. Both as a corporate and private customer. Never had a problem. Support was always great. Sometimes even Mr Hetzner himself would step in.
