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I had 27 TB on a Synology and a 1 Gbps uplink and no working way to back it up off-site. HyperBackup choked on Google's rate limit. Cloud Sync sat at 400k files "syncing" forever. I tried to build a restic clone in Python, threw 2,000 lines of code away, and ended up shipping an S3-compatible proxy that fans writes across five Google Drive accounts via rclone. This is the whole story.
Read →I had ~50 TB of media I wanted to back up off-site. Synology HyperBackup can speak S3. Google Drive Workspace gives you generous per-user storage, but…
Read →A custom backup engine I wrote was happily writing tens of thousands of chunk rows to SQLite. Then I bumped concurrency from two backup jobs to ten, and…
Read →I had 27 TB of stuff on my NAS that I wanted backed up to Google Drive. Synology HyperBackup ran for weeks, made it about a third of the way, and the…
Read →My Synology Hyper Backup job to Google Drive kept restarting and never finishing. It would run for hours, get most of the way through the scan, then bail…
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