Offshore Backup VPS for Encrypted Remote Backup
Off site backup is only useful if the off site copy survives the same threats as the primary. Hosting your backups on a domestic cloud means the same warrant or court order that hits your production server also reaches your backups. AnubizHost offshore backup VPS solves that with hardware in Romania, Iceland, and Finland - jurisdictions outside Five Eyes that respect privacy. Encrypted at rest, encrypted in transit, paid in crypto.
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Why Offshore Matters for Backups
The 3-2-1 backup rule says three copies, two media, one off site. Most operators interpret off site as another datacenter in the same country, which fails against legal threats, ransomware that pivots across cloud accounts, and provider lock outs. True off site means a different jurisdiction with no data sharing treaty against you. Romania, Iceland, and Finland fit that profile better than US, UK, or Germany.
AnubizHost backup VPS run in datacenters with their own physical security, redundant power, and DDoS protection. The hosting jurisdiction does not honor DMCA, does not forward subpoenas to the home country, and requires a local court order for any data access. Combined with full disk encryption on the VPS itself and client side encryption in restic or borg, the backup is opaque even to AnubizHost staff.
Sizing the Backup VPS
For desktop and laptop backups budget 100 GB per workstation with 10 percent annual growth. Small team backups - 5 to 20 users - fit comfortably in a 1 TB VPS. Server and database backups need 3 to 5x raw size to account for daily full plus hourly incrementals over a 30 day retention. Deduplicating backup tools like restic and borg cut storage 40 to 80 percent depending on data type.
Bandwidth is the second sizing factor. Initial seeding of 500 GB takes 12 hours on a 100 Mbps link. Daily incrementals after that typically run 5 to 20 GB. AnubizHost VPS ship unmetered on most plans so seeding does not blow a transfer cap. For very large initial seeds we can ship a preloaded encrypted disk by courier.
Tooling - restic, borg, duplicati, rclone
restic is the modern choice for most workloads. Single binary, written in Go, encrypts before upload, deduplicates across snapshots, and supports SFTP, S3, and rest server backends. borg is older but battle tested with excellent dedup ratios and a sftp friendly transport. duplicati ships a web UI for non technical users and integrates with most cloud backends. rclone is a Swiss army knife for syncing between any cloud storage protocols.
For database workloads run pgBackRest for PostgreSQL, percona xtrabackup for MySQL, and mongodump for MongoDB, then upload the artifacts with restic or rclone. Schedule with cron or systemd timers, monitor with healthchecks.io or your own uptime monitor, and verify monthly with a test restore.
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