Struggling to Replace MinIO - Advice Welcome!

[ruihildt]

Minio is back:

https://blog.vonng.com/en/db/minio-resurrect/

I see on the HN conversation people are doubting the author, and some others also mention Chainguard will also keep a fork with CVE patched: https://github.com/chainguard-forks/minio

Maybe it's worth waiting a bit to see which fork get consistent maintenance.

[d19dotca]

I am in a similar position. I currently use iDrive e2 for backups and it’s fine but it does take around 1.5 hours uploading tarballs from my server. I’m looking at possibly deploying a low-budget Kimsufi server in the same OVH data centre and just mounting that disk as SSHFS to Cloudron on my primary server, haven’t tried it out yet. If I go this way I will likely still keep iDrive as a second backup destination and just run it a little less frequently and with lower retention to save on costs a little bit there.

I’m wondering about MinIO alternatives as I tried MinIO on a second Cloudron install but it seemed to take even longer than uploading to iDrive e2 somehow (I expected it’d be quicker not slower). It seemed the project is dead too but then it also looks like there’s an active fork that maybe the Cloudron @staff can look into using instead. Brings back many of the lost MinIO features by the sounds of it too.

Thinking of other avenues to keep backups more “local” or as close to local as possible for rapid quick backups, and then completely offsite as a second backup plan too.

I have around 65 GB compressed to back up, around 125 GB uncompressed, I believe.

[robi]

Have you tried the custom Garage S3 app?

[girish]

The garage app is packaged, just reviewing it and have to a get an initial package out.

[d19dotca]

I haven’t used Garage yet but isn’t it just another s3? So it’d basically be a MinIO replacement, right? Do we have any other options for ones with “hardlinks” using rsync? I kind of think the Surfer app would honestly be a great way to use as a backup somehow if it could be used to expose a disk.

[girish]

Whoops, apologies. The garage app is not packaged. We have packaged seaweedfs and that is what is in the pipeline. The S3 compat layer seems to work well in that app. https://git.cloudron.io/packages/seaweedfs-app/ is the package.

[robi]

The minimally changed and full featured drop-in fork of MinIO is called Silo - https://github.com/pgsty/minio

Would be a great community package if not official app replacement.

I'd still like to see Garage packaged too, it's quick and simple, even does http hosting.

[joseph]

RustFS might also work as a MinIO replacement

[jdaviescoates]

@joseph said:

RustFS might also work as a MinIO replacement

...once it's out of Alpha.

Personally I wouldn't want backups anywhere close to anything in an alpha

[crazybrad]

You might want to look at Borg. I have no experience but read that it has deduplication and incremental backup capability.