Hetzner throwaway storage boxes

Found a good post on how to use the  rescue mode in Hetzner to setup a Logical Volume that spans multiple drives. This plus vsftpd can help setup Terabytes of space for storage as backup. In any case you should not use Hetzner for anything closely resembling a legit online service, website etc. It is only popular as Seedbox for a reason as they are quick to lock your server out.

Speaking of seedboxes, if you want to setup one here is a good script https://github.com/arakasi72/rtinst It can optionally install Webmin.

For file storage, search and download etc I have not yet found a tool. It’s mostly find and scp

If you feel adventurous I found a tricked out Seedbox setup script here https://github.com/dannyti/seedbox-from-scratch. Does everything and makes coffee.

With Bacula running on the local server I can send snapshots over to Hetzner albeit at a slow-as-snail speed. 30 Euros per month for 5.5TB of space is not too bad. I picked up a system from the their auctions and its quite alright but one shouldn’t expect performance or longevity from such systems. You get what you pay for essentially.