Hello,

I am looking for recommendations for a service provider of immutable backup that has options for a homelab user.

My research has led me to services with expensive options, or no pricing at all unless you ask for a quote.

Thank you

  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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    2 months ago

    How immutable do you need?

    S3 offers a flag that prevents modification or deletion for a set period, and afaik basically every S3-compatible provider offers that.

    I use that along with a lifecycle rule to maintain my backup buckets on iDrive.

    If you need a ‘you cannot touch this and the provider has no way of allowing it’ then you’re talking specialized corporate talk-to-a-sales-person-for-a-quote, as you found out.

    Edit: if you don’t need cloud, there’s options for WORM media from the humble BluRay to fancy SSDs that don’t allow deletion.

  • ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat
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    2 months ago

    I use Backblaze B2, but stored in an encrypted Restic container, set up using this guide:

    https://helgeklein.com/blog/restic-encrypted-offsite-backup-with-ransomware-protection-for-your-homeserver/

    Restic has been great for automating backups, and even letting me mount the encrypted storage to grab individual files. I like doing it this way since I don’t have to trust Backblaze isn’t reading my data - I know for sure that they can’t.

    Performance of storage that is both remote and encrypted is about what you would expect, but I don’t need access to the data unless something bad happens.