Struggling to Replace MinIO - Advice Welcome!
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We have been using MinIO for our company backups for some time. Each nightly backup with MinIO takes about 2-3 hours. When Cloudron updated from v8 to v9, something broke with the MinIO regions, and we need to find an alternative anyway as MinIO has gone into maintenance mode.
Requirements: We have about 150GB of data, increasing by a few GB a week. It is made up of a large number of small files, with new ones being added while many old ones stay the same. We want frequent (7 daily, 4 weekly, 12 monthly, etc.) de-duplicated backups. So the first backup would be the full 150GB, and subsequent backups would be snapshots that include the changed or new files (only a few GB) and "hard-links"(?) to the unchanged ones. We can tolerate an initial backup taking longer, but subsequent daily backups should be, e.g. 5-6 hours max. We had our Cloudron server (in "the cloud") backing up to an on-premises device with a ZFS file system and plenty of storage space. We are open to either using this set-up, or having storage somewhere else in "the cloud" for our backups.
Can anyone advise on a setup that would be a suitable replacement for MinIO?
Does anyone know which backup options in Cloudron are intended to provide de-duplicated, incremental backup snapshots?
Below is a breakdown of what we have tried so far and what the problems were:
Garage on the same on-premises device as MinIO. Was difficult to set up, but we got there in the end. However, we found each backup took exponentially longer, 5 hours, 7 hours, then 16 hours. I think the de-duplication was making things take longer the more snapshots we had. (We also did not like that the files were stored in a non-human-readable way. With MinIO, we can browse the backup files as a normal file system, but Garage just has chunks of bytes, so you can only access the data by using Garage.)
NFS (and SSHFS) with rsync (as I believe tarball would just do a full copy of the data each time). These were just too slow. We first tried this when we had more data, and they would run for 24 hours and then get killed by Cloudron for taking too long. After reducing our data, we managed a complete backup, but it took around 13 hours each day, which isn't really workable.
Backblaze B2 (rsync, in "the cloud") The first backup seemed to work fine, but subsequent backups did not appear to be de-duplicating. We had four 150GB Backblaze backups, but the bucket was showing as 860GB in size, so far more than if all four backups were full copies of the data. Is Backblaze meant to de-duplicate? We ticked the encrypted option in Cloudron - would it de-duplicate if it was not encrypted? Does encrypting it make it bigger?
S3 API Compatible (v4) with PeaSoup in "the cloud": Too slow, and no de-duplication.
Has anyone with similar requirements found a true replacement for MinIO yet?
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I have not tried this personally, but in a similar situation, I would maybe explore https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs