Continuing the discussion from Ability to download Qobuz purchases not permanent:
The Hetzner Storage Box offers relatively inexpensive* backup storage that performs wells and offers the following services:
- FTPS / SFTP
- SCP
- Samba/CIFS
- BorgBackup
- Restic
- Rclone
- rsync via SSH
- HTTPS
- WebDAV
Performance-wise, I’ve found Borg to be the fastest, since it is a deduplicating archiver that will only replace file chunks that have changed. So, for example, if you change the metadata for an album, Borg only uploads the new chunks.
Since Borg is a command line utility, it’s beneficial to use some helper programs. On the Linux desktop, I use the excellent Pika. Alternatively, there’s Vorta, which is designed for macOS, but also runs on Linux and Windows. On my headless server, I use Borgmatic, which uses a systemd timer for scheduling§.
In my experience, Borg, paired with Hetzner, is fast and incredibly reliable. For instance, I started a new backup set on Sunday (1.1 TB), and this took around 6 hours† to complete with encryption and compression. Subsequent backups typically take a few minutes.
*5 TB of storage costs around €13 / £11 pcm.
§I may look at creating a container to run Pika with X11 forwarding over SSH.
†I have a 500Mbps FFTP connection.
I backup my albums to iBroadcast. There is both a free and a premium service. Both have an app that allows the user to play directly from iBroadcast and the Sonos app will also play from there (maybe others as well). Best - for me anyway - is that the app is available in Android Auto for when Arc fails me.
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I use iBroadcast this way, too. Also BackBlaze and duplicate hard drives.
I have not found BackBlaze to be slow either in up or download, now that they have a downloader app.
Hmm, Hetzner wants a copy of my ID and a picture of me.
My Nas is a WD mycloud EX2 Ultra which came with Goodsync, I just run that once a week usually or whenever I’ve added new music to the library and it syncs in both directions with Google Drive.
2TB storage is £8 a month and I’ve subscribed to Google One for years, so it’s an obvious choice for me.
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The title is a bit confusing as it seems to be aimed at Qobuz , which I don’t have .
My main PC is a semi NAS , it has 4 HDD (3 & 4 TB) Each HDD has 2 x External USB HDD of the same size as BU. This covers Audio, Video and images.
I use SyncBackPro weekly to keep all in order , but music probably more often than that as it has more frequent change.
My main PC is the master and I sync the Music Library to the NUC SSD after any changes . I never edit the Roon watched drive. All this is manual. It keeps me busy.
Yes I should keep a copy somewhere other than home !!
I have 2 main folders on my Primary Desktop as primary source
- FLAC
- MP3
Both folders are put in Sync manually towards a NAS via Robocopy and towards my MOCK
the Flac folder is also synched from the primary Desktop PC via onedrive towards the cloud and towards a laptop
the Flac and MP3 folders are also automatically backupped to USB drive on the NAS every week
I tried VOX cloud storage, which apparently is unlimited and will stream collection to mobile (most of the time). It’s $USD4.99 p.c.m.
I found uploading to be a little clunky; metadata needed manual editing, and after a year I didn’t up the subscription.
I’ve been fine with iTunes Match, though it will only match or upload in lossy 256 kbps M4A (AAC). This is $USD24.99 per year. But again it needs more fiddling with metadata. At my stage of life I’m too tired to perform these labours.
As Roon provides a nice home for my streaming favourites (Tidal & qobuz) I’ve not given the matter more thought. But if there was, say, an $8-per locker that just got out of the way I’d reconsider.
For context I have about eighteen-months-worth of local digital (that is, the time it would typically take for me to play the library end-to-end). I’m nerdy about this stuff, too, but if push came to shove I’d be fine with wholly streaming.
Otherwise a 5 TB plan would cover it. My 1 TB Microsoft locker will not, though if I was to only upload the ones that are hard to replicate with streaming, it would, and there’d be no additional charge for a subscription.
I did think of a Microsoft 365 family plan where you get 5 (or 6) seats each with 1 TB cloud storage.
I wasn’t sure if one user could hog the total storage so I never went further
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This looks interesting : investigating.
- Spent a couple of days with iBroadcast, and I’m sold. I hope more people will find this elegant, if slightly pricey, solution up their street. *
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Nope, doesn’t work that way. Each user gets 1TB storage; they can’t be pooled.
This is correct within a family plan you cannot pool. But you can get more storage and OneDrive storage is still the cheapest of all
So I got a TB extra in my personal pool which is more than enough for my FLAC backup and important doc backup.
You can pool 2 accounts if you have one personal and 1 work OneDrive though: then you are able to sync 2 different OneDrive folders to 2 different accounts (one family + one work) this way you have 2 instances of OneDrive running - this does not work with 2 members of your family plan
Thanks for that i didn’t do it until that was confirmed
Haha I’m with you there
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I store my media on a Synology NAS and run the internal HDDs in raid 1 - I use Synology Hyper Backup to make regular backups to an attached external SSD - did not go with cloud storage due to cost over time and my upload speed is relatively low compared to download. The external SSD was not expensive.
You can share your subscription with 5 microsoft accounts. As far as I know a person can legally have 5 microsoft accounts (or more).
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I would still add a further means of backup. RAID1 is for availability, not backup, and SSDs have a finite number of write cycles before failure.
I’d add a further backup to a HDD to your setup.
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I will order one today
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It’s always good to remember it
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