Add Storj as Backup option
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I realise these things can be done with the generic S3 API Compatible settings - but I think there's some good karma value in having them specifically detailed and documented; in that their communities and products seem ethically aligned with Cloudron's aims and community, and will likely bring cross-pollination of champions for each.
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I was unable to get Filebase working. On a side note, they are a nightmare to deal with for simply deleting an account. Still hasn't happened yet. Boy do they really want me to stay...
Definitely frustrating anytime a service doesn't let you delete your own account.
hi @girish, It's a good time to add storj as a backup solution in cloudron natively,
I was a beta user of Storj.io (Tardigrade.io) in 2019, now for the last 5 months, I'm using storj.io as my main object storage provider due to pricing, never got any problem yet...
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I would be interested in Storj as a backup options, been having the usual ongoing issues with Backblaze and I have never got a full NextCloud backup to run. It dies just after halfway. Which is critical for me to back up. Currently running VM snapshots as a backup method which is very sub-optimal.
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@girish They do support multi-part copying. I have been a customer for the past 3 years and it has been a life saver for myself and the company I work for. It is baked in with their processes and is nothing you are have to do. I do have it working using the S3 Compatibility mode and it works, but as Storj will say, it will be buggy and it is. If you talk with their developers they will work with you to add in a native plugin for Cloudron so we can connect to it and go. Trust me, it is fantastic and a great alternative to all of the other Cloud storage solutions.
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@girish They do support multi-part copying. I have been a customer for the past 3 years and it has been a life saver for myself and the company I work for. It is baked in with their processes and is nothing you are have to do. I do have it working using the S3 Compatibility mode and it works, but as Storj will say, it will be buggy and it is. If you talk with their developers they will work with you to add in a native plugin for Cloudron so we can connect to it and go. Trust me, it is fantastic and a great alternative to all of the other Cloud storage solutions.
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I went with Wasabi in the end.
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Correct me if I’m wrong as I had looked at storj in the past… but if I recall, I couldn’t choose a region where it’d be stored because it’s sort of a CDN based backup service, so bits of the data are spread around different areas, is that correct though? In other words, I could choose to keep the backups in Canada if I use storj, right?
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@skeats ah ok, so the recommended approach is to not use the s3 compatibility later but use a native storj api module?
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Correct me if I’m wrong as I had looked at storj in the past… but if I recall, I couldn’t choose a region where it’d be stored because it’s sort of a CDN based backup service, so bits of the data are spread around different areas, is that correct though? In other words, I could choose to keep the backups in Canada if I use storj, right?
@d19dotca You are right in the aspect of it being a CDN style backup service. It takes your data and splits it up into 64MB segments and disperses it around their different nodes in the world. When you request to download a file from your Storj service, it can rebuild a copy of that file with only 24 of the closest nodes to your location, no matter where you are in the world. Yes, some of those segments will be in Canada.
