queztion for my fellow gam-devs

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@jalict @eleanor oh

[j0ebaldw1n@mastodonapp.uk]

@aeva Backblaze, it's cheap as hell, you can encrypt your storage and the first 10gb is free

I have 100GB sitting in it and it costs me $1 a month inc. tax

[halcy@icosahedron.website]

@aeva yeah god

also like. my history isn't in reality linear, right? like I'll try something and then I look at it and it's shit. so I go back a revision or two and start again and next time I save I probably save with whatever number is next up

the linear history doesn't really reflect that

[celestia@tech.lgbt]

@aeva after a lot of looking my answer to this was crickets

but I have two not-quite-adequate-but-still-worth-mentioning solutions

there's several nextcloud vendors that have pretty decent prices, I rent my stuff from hetzner, about $5/month for 1TB of storage. if you don't know nextcloud, think "open source dropbox"

but for my projects, what I settled on is a private forgejo instance. I have a little home cluster with 2TB in RAID1, and offsite backups at two different locations...

and the only reason I can justify the maintenance cost of setting up and doing all this is because my particular brand of autism inexplicably classifies all this work into "leisure activities"...

but yeah, if you happen to find a way to self host something like this, I can tell you it's going to be very snappy. if you've ever thought: "git doesn't work with binary assets files for games", that's just because you didn't have a full instance to yourself

[gyrosgeier@hachyderm.io]

@aeva 1 TB seems to be 3.20 EUR per month: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/

There are probably similar offers from other companies as well, because offsite backups at a different provider are a common requirement for professional deployments.

OVH also has something, but their website is confusing, rather than a base price they charge per GB and month.

[jalict@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva @eleanor

me who was an idiot - should just have said "object storage", s3 is what amazon call their object storage provider.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@j0ebaldw1n noice :O

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@jalict @eleanor happens to the best of us

[dannii_montanii@mastodon.social]

@aeva I had looked into setting up a free perforce server on Oracle hosted vm - but then its with Oracle too

But the idea was enough around the same thought

[ahchay@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva I've been using Filen (https://filen.io/) - their free tier gives you 10gb but there are paid options too which seem pretty reasonable

[gyrosgeier@hachyderm.io]

@aeva BTW be aware that internal Windows Backup makes a full image of the system disk by default, that's a bit silly, takes ages to transfer and uses a lot of space. Best to deselect that and only use file versioning for the relevant directories, that's somewhat lightweight and also gives you access to multiple old versions, timestamped (that's the "Previous Versions" tab in file properties).

[ratsnakegames@mastodon.social]

@aeva For me, the solution is a Strato Vserver running gitea, and all my asset files go into git lfs.

[gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pupxel @aeva my solution for that is syncthing. I have a few folder which are replicated between my phone, my home server, laptop, desktop PC, a raspberry pi playing music at home. If house burn down, I still have the phone as every other remote is at home.

In theory, syncthing allow you to have remote purely for storage, where the data is encrypted and therefore cannot be read locally. This with a cheap VPS sound like a decent solution to your issue

[oreolek@icosahedron.website]

@aeva perforce is free for small teams

[magpie3d@mastodon.social]

@aeva Hetzner have a hosted Nextcloud service. I’ve been using it for a while now. The price is very reasonable.
You can map your own subdomain to it as well.

[eggboycolor@mastodon.social]

@aeva I use a backup tool called Restic and point it to Backblaze -- also supports other cloud backup providers, Hetzner I think is what people recommend now, thinking of moving. The nice part is this gives versioned backups and encrypts the repo, can do local repos too. I wrote a little script around things and put it behind a specially permissioned backup user, and I periodically run manual backups. I could crontab but I don't need it that often, and need to be careful about rate limits.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@raven now we talkin. what's the $$$