Hetzner Storage Box for ZFS Replication

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Hello,

this post shall not be any advertising, but just a hint for those of you, which are looking for cloud storage providers that support ZFS replication.

The Hetzner Storage Box (Hetzner is a provider in Germany) seems to be a relatively cheap (3.81 EUR per 1 TB; 12.97 EUR per 5 TB per month) cloud storage solution and they provide a lot of different protocols to upload/download the data. In the background they use ZFS for the storage (you can use the .zfs/snapshots folder).

I contacted Hetzner if ZFS replication is also supported. The answer was that this feature is not available, yet, but a feature request was already created and they marked this feature request with “+1” because of my request.

So, if anyone from you already thought about using a Hetzner Storage Box, it could be helpful to get some more “+1” on this feature request :wink:

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Hi there,

so I got in touch with their support yesterday and their reply said that support for ZFS replication is in fact not planned, which is a bummer.

I will stick with restic and backrest for my backups for the time being.

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That’s a really bad information :slightly_frowning_face:

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I asked support again, they now say it’s on the roadmap!

This is currently not possible. But this feature is on our roadmap.
Unfortunately, we can’t yet say when it will be available.

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If your demands are sufficiently large, Hetzner offers dedicated storage optimized servers that can be run with your OS of choice.

We run FreeBSD which needs a little dance with the “depenguinator” at installation time.

But they support Ubuntu, Debian and the likes and if you order a temporary remote KVM you should even be able to install e.g. Debian with ZFSBootMenu - which in my experience delivers the best ZFS experience in Linux land.

E.g.

  • AMD Ryzen™ 9 3900 12-Core Matisse (Zen2)
  • 128 GB DDR4 ECC RAM
  • 2 x 1.92 TB NVMe SSD Datacenter Edition (Gen 3)
  • 8 x 22 TB SATA HDD
  • 1 Gbit/s Uplink

for 204,00 € per month. Fixed cost. Network uplink is flat rate, operation is flat rate.

That’s a 132 TB RAIDZ2 pool.

IMHO that is pretty attractive for a small business and you only need ZFS and SSH as a replication target for TrueNAS.

Kind regards,
Patrick

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I too talked to the Hetzner Support regarding this. Status in March 26’ is still the same: Feature is on the roadmap but no timetable yet.

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https://www.rsync.net might be worth a look.