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What sort of setup would you have for secure file storage on a VPS?
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Not only does borg have strong encryption, it also has git-like incrimental versioning and insanely good compression and de-duplication.
For example, I backup my whole 700GB OS drive (personal data + the whole linux OS install with all my tweaks and configs) - I set it to keep the last 15 "snapshots" (7 daily, 4 weekly, 3 monthly, 1 yearly) and all it takes on the borg server is 800GB.
I like using borgmatic for automatic borg backups, but it's optional.
If you like a GUI, Vorta is great.
What are you paying for 800gb?
Backing up linux is cheating as it can be compressed heavily.
I can backup my whole linux install on Veeam Backup and Replication about 2-3x for the full backup on optimal.