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.
@decryption I think you should consider that other providers offer redundancy in the pricing.
@miyuru @decryption this is a good point, i guess the counter to this is if you do want drive redundancy, you just ship another drive and connect it to the same VM and mirror, may not be possible unless you carve that out at the start though.
mind you i feel like the selling point of say backblaze (which i've personally used before) is the fact that you can start small and build up, buying the actual drive you're gonna use on this service means that you may have essentially paid for capacity that you arent using, or to get a bit more space you need to purchase another drive.
i reckon this is still a neat concept though and especially if you wanted a redundant offsite backup that needs an instant 20TB+ of storage, backblaze does cost quite a bit more.
@decryption Do you have any plans about the JBOD design?
@shlee it's just a HDD attached to a VM, so you get as much as storage as the HDD you supply
