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However, I would not use the storage boxes as the only backup. The offer has two disadvantages.
The boxes are regularly unavailable for some time due to maintenance work. But these maintenance times are announced in advance.
Hetzner does not specify what kind of RAID is used.
I therefore only use my box as an additional offsite backup and to swap out less important files.
Mainstream? Not a chance. Many people know Twitter and Facebook, but they don’t know what Lemmy or Reddit is, for example, and therefore don’t use it.
And it usually doesn’t matter if solution A is better than solution B. What becomes mainstream and what doesn’t usually depends on other things.
Yes, this is a bug. This has already been reported (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1581) and fixed (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1661). I assume that after the release of Lemmy 0.18.1 everything will work again as it should.
The amount of data I backup offsite is significantly less than 20 TB. Therefore, my answer to your question will probably not help you.
I store my offsite backups at rsync.net and in one of Hetzners Storage Boxes. For backups in general, I use Borg.
Maybe Borg is a possibility. However, I have not yet backed up an entire system with it, but only certain files.
but I do not feel comfortable with depending on Microsoft for this service.
Why don’t you feel good about it? When Microsoft acquired Github, the worst things were predicted by some users. That was in late 2018 if I’m not mistaken. Now it’s 2023, what terrible things have happened so far? From my point of view, Github has actually developed very positively since then.
Sure, Github could delete repositories at any time. But so can any other provider. However, this is not a big problem for the code alone, since you always have at least one current version stored locally. Issues and pull requests can be exported, albeit unofficially. Corresponding scripts for this are even offered directly on Github.
What else could Microsoft do? Use the code that is available in a repository. Microsoft can also do this if the code is stored by another provider. Git clone <repo> is already sufficient for this.
So I personally see few problems to use Github. Especially since there are the most users and therefore the probability is higher to find people who participate in a project.
But apart from that, I host a few projects at Codeberg.org. Responsible for this is a non-profit organization in Germany. Except for some technical problems when switching to better hardware a few months ago, I can’t complain.
I now only play the games on Windows which definitely don’t run on Linux. In my case, these are only very few (time reasons and I am only interested in a few new games at all) and usually the copy protection or the cheat protection is the reason why.
There is no such thing as the objectively best solution. Each tool has advantages and disadvantages. And every user has different preferences and requirements.
Personally, I am using Borg for years. And I have had to restore data several times, which has worked every time.
In addition to Borg, you can also look at Borgmatic. This wrapper extends the functionality and makes some things easier.
And if you want to use a graphical user interface, you can have a look at Vorta or Pika.
I don’t particularly like the graphic interface as shown at https://demo.archivebox.io/public/. In my opinion, too much is displayed at once.
For my part, I use Wallabag to save single Internet pages. I think its graphic interface is better. But it is not perfect either.