anyone potentially into this? I’ll store your HDD in my server for $1/day so you can store your backups offsite cheap, a third or fourth copy of your files - more you store the cheaper it is
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@decryption that's a good deal, m8.
Personally, I want to #DIY myself something like #Tarsnap (which is why I refuse to look at it's source code!) but with custom endpoints to store stuff in...
Simply because I can't use anything subject to #CloudAct (i.e. #amazon #S3 / #Glacier) and want something uniformly that can do "pull backups" without anything on the machines that I want/need to backup / restore.
- Plus not being chained to a #centralized. #SingleVendot / #SingleProvider solution is kinda important.
I mean, without #GDPR, #BDSG (if not even stricter rules and a moody US Government) I'd be more inclined just to pay for Tarsnap et. al. cuz @cperciva made a really good service with it...
@decryption Granted, evem if you only have like a singe & slow vCPU, 512 MB RAM and 10-100MBit/s NIC, that makes your offer competitive compared to budget hosters like #Contabo.
@kkarhan yep exactly, particularly if you have more than a few TB of data (photos, videos, etc)
@decryption not to mention this fills the need between "Self-hosted / Colocated Petabytes" and "Sketchy Filehosters" that many places may have.
- Obviously since it's their drive and their VM they'd still have some decently sized "warm offsite storage" to use in a pinch, not just for backups but like transfering and sharing data.
I'd not be surprised if small businesses would just mail-in an #ExaDrive (or similarly high-capacity, slow SSD) ...
@decryption I guess you gonna provision said VMs with passthrough to the drive(s) paid for and just let it boot into a "ROM" with like a minimalist linux that barely runs like dropbear and only gets customized with the SSH-Pubkey of said client to allow only them to login.
- After all, people should use this as mere "data storage" and not much more.
Consider #mkroot ( #toybox) and maybe add vsftpd or Pure-FTPd to it if you don't want a full phat debian on it?
Certainly you don't want people to abuse your box for shitcoin mining...
@OS1337 sadly isn't ready yet for such a setup...
@kkarhan plan is to let people pick their own OS - some want FreeBSD, some want their particular flavour of Linux, I don’t really care
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Passthrough_Physical_Disk_to_Virtual_Machine_(VM)
@decryption Oh so they either have to setup their own drive ahead of deployment or can just sent you like an ISO to boot from?
Nifty...
@kkarhan nah the boot drive is on the hosts’s SSD (like 20GB or something) and I attach the HDD to the guest VM (I don’t need to log into the VM to do it) and then they can mount it and do whatever they like
@decryption ah so you do include some boot storage...
- Makes sense. That way clients can just setup their system as they want it and just SSH into it.
Pretty nifty, I'd say...
@kkarhan yep exactly! I figure most people will just use a flavour of Linux and use rclone to store their offsite backups - many will also use ZFS backups - up to them to decide how they wanna do it
@decryption https://zfs.rent offers a similar(maybe same) service. Seems to be something people want at least.
@rishi556 yep, that's exactly what I want to do, lol (i didnt know it already exists!)
I guess I have a good option for Aussies that don't want to send a HDD to the USA. This is a good template for me to get started with.
Hmm, the math really doesn't work out at all.
This will end up costing 365$/year.
For that kind of money, you can easily get a cheap nas, or a low power pc.
If you have friends that are willing to subsidise you by providing power&internet for free, the break even would be around 8-12 months. And you have full control over everything.
Even if you have to pay a nominal fee to your friend for utils, yearly running-costs would be way less than the 365$.
@newhinton if you can find a friend to do that, great! Not everyone has such a friend
@decryption I found an early mood board of this project.
@haakon I have an aesthetic
@decryption I like this idea, hopefully you’d bill annually, not daily. 😁 Getting the drive back easily (and possibly quickly) would be a factor in recovery if used for off-site backup.
@zenwheel yep annual - and yeah, if you’re in Melbourne you can pick it up same day (or maybe I’ll drop it off myself!) otherwise I’ll ship it via Express Post/courier anywhere you like just for the cost of postage
@decryption this isn't something I'd use (I have no need for it) - but I do have the question: how do you handle insurance/data loss/damage, etc?
@andyb caveat emptor - it’s clear (I hope) that you’re getting non-redundant storage that isn’t backed up.
