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Why Choose HDD Colocation Over Cloud Storage?

HDD-Housing e.U.: Private Offsite Backu...

HDD Colocation vs. Traditional Cloud Storage For users with 12TB, 20TB, or 100TB+ of data, traditional "Big Tech" cloud providers become prohibitively expensive. The Colocation Advantage: Fixed Costs: Your monthly fee remains €20 regardless of whether your d...

Supported Protocols: S3 Storage & Syncthing

HDD-Housing e.U.: Private Offsite Backu...

Connecting to Your Offsite Backup We offer two primary methods to access your hosted hard drive remotely. 1. S3 (Object Storage) Using VersityGW, we provide an S3-compatible endpoint. This allows you to integrate your HDD with almost any modern backup software...

Network Performance & Traffic

HDD-Housing e.U.: Private Offsite Backu...

Network Speed and Bandwidth Limits Our facility is equipped with high-speed fiber connectivity to ensure your backups run smoothly. Backup Speed (Upload to us): Up to 1 Gbit/s. Restore Speed (Download from us): Currently limited to approximately 80 Mbit/s....

Preparing and Shipping Your HDD

HDD-Housing e.U.: Private Offsite Backu...

Getting Started: Hardware & Shipping To begin the service, you must provide your own hard drive. 1. Prepare Your Drive We recommend pre-loading (seeding) your initial backup onto the drive at home. This saves you weeks of upload time. Supported Sizes: 3.5” a...

Monitoring, Security & GDPR

HDD-Housing e.U.: Private Offsite Backu...

Security, Health Monitoring, and Privacy Health Monitoring (Grafana) Every customer receives access to a Grafana Dashboard. You can view: S.M.A.R.T. values (Hard drive health status). Disk usage statistics for the last 365 days. Email alerts in the event...

Restic

Backup

Install Restic apt update apt install restic Configure Create restic_env.sh with content: export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="access_key" export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="secret_key" export RESTIC_REPOSITORY="s3:http://IP-OR-DNS:7070/bucket" # Password for Restic-Encrypt...