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Remote storage solution ? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I used to rock a bare metal 1Tib HDD server for 17€/month, that I used as an NFS server for all my other servers which needed storage space.

First of all, NFS kinda sucks and I'm looking for alternative solution that I can use on OpenBSD to mount remote volumes.

Secondly, I'm planning to move this server to hetzner (my current provider), but they lack affordable storage (it's 50€/month for 1Tib). Do you know an hosting provider which would provide high volumes for not so expensive prices ?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

NFS kinda sucks and I'm looking for alternative solution

Rsync + cron? If you just need to backup some files/directories.

Edit: ah, saw that you will read/write a lot. Do you really need to do that over the network? Why not upload a .tar, a snapshot or whatever of the changes?

If you could be a bit more specific then maybe we could give some better advice.

Use a seedbox if you're downloading stuff and dont have enough disk space.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The best example would be a running an email or chat server. The spool/media directories can go large pretty quick as users share pictures, gifs, ... So I would like to mount it from a remote location because the matrix server itself only has a 20G SSD for the whole OS. Rsync won't cut it there as I have a specific process writing to a location.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, I see.

Perhaps sshfs could be an alternative. Not sure of the performance out of the box, but it is possible to tweak a bit.

https://www.ports.to/path/sysutils/sshfs-fuse.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'll look more into FUSE based remote storage more generally because it seems to be my only option besides NFS. I've heard great feedback from SSHFS so I'll bench it eventually and see how it goes.