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I’ve not heard of garage before but it looks quite interesting. I use s3 a lot for work but for homelab backups I’ve always just used borg on borgbase. Now I’m
by darkteflon 1y ago
I’ve not heard of garage before but it looks quite interesting. I use s3 a lot for work but for homelab backups I’ve always just used borg on borgbase. Now I’m wondering whether I could use garage to pair a local node and AWS glacier for cheap redundancy of a large media library (I’m assuming that ~all of the reading is automatically done from the local node). TFA doesn’t really talk much about the actual experience of using garage - would love to hear more opinions from those who use it for self-hosting.
Edit: Realised you can’t use glacier since storage has to be mounted to the ec2 compute running the garage binary as a filesystem. So doesn’t really make sense as media library backup over just scheduling a periodic borg / restic backup to glacier directly.
- ddxv 1y agoI haven't needed to interact with Garage itself specifically. I've been using Boto3 / awscli / s3cmd / rclone for everything S3 API related and it's worked great. Garage was a few commands to setup, turn on, get API keys setup, and then left to run on it's own for the past 4 months. So in that sense, I've loved it.
- d3Xt3r 1y agoAnother alternative is ZeroFS[1], just store your stuff directly to S3. [1] https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS
- darkteflon 1y agoThat looks very interesting - will look into it, thanks.
- mbreese 1y agoYou could still pair to AWS S3 and have an aggressive lifecycle policy to move the data to glacier after a short time window. I had this setup at a previous job for data. After X days it would switch from standard tier to glacier. In your case, X could equal 1.