Migrating a Hetzner Storage Box to AnubizHost Storage VPS
Hetzner Storage Box gives cheap bulk storage in Germany or Finland - but cross-mounting it from a non-Hetzner host is slow and there's no real privacy posture. This guide walks through copying a Storage Box (whether 1TB or 20TB) to an AnubizHost offshore storage VPS with rclone, including parallel transfers and post-transfer verification.
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Plan the Transfer Size and Window
Calculate transfer time: at 100Mbps sustained, 1TB takes 24 hours; at 1Gbps, 2.5 hours. Hetzner Storage Box caps at 1Gbps and supports SFTP, SSH, Samba, and WebDAV. Hetzner-to-Hetzner is fastest, Hetzner-to-AnubizHost over the public internet is typically 200-500 Mbps depending on routes.
Provision an AnubizHost storage VPS with at least 20% more capacity than your Storage Box usage to accommodate the source data plus any working space. Romania and Netherlands offshore storage tiers are well-priced for bulk data.
Set Up rclone with Hetzner Source
Install rclone on the AnubizHost target: apt install rclone. Configure a Hetzner Storage Box remote interactively with rclone config, selecting SFTP, the Storage Box hostname, your username, and your Storage Box password. Test: rclone ls hetzner:.
For maximum speed, increase parallelism. rclone supports --transfers=16 --checkers=32 on stable connections. Watch for SFTP throttling - if the Storage Box rate-limits, reduce to --transfers=4.
Run the Copy with Resume Support
Start the initial copy:
rclone copy hetzner: /mnt/storage/ \
--transfers=8 --checkers=16 \
--progress --log-file=/var/log/rclone.logrclone resumes on interruption - if the SSH connection drops, re-run the same command and it skips already-copied files. For verification, run rclone check hetzner: /mnt/storage/ at the end to catch any mismatches.
Cut Over Clients and Mount Points
Update any client systems that mounted the old Storage Box (via SMB, SSHFS, or rclone mount) to point at the AnubizHost storage. Most teams just change the mount unit or fstab line and restart the dependent services. For backup tools (Borg, Restic, rsync.net replacement), update the repo URL.
Keep the Hetzner Storage Box paid for one full billing cycle as a rollback safety net, then cancel.
Storage Privacy and Cost Comparison
Hetzner Storage Box is cheap (under EUR 4/TB at the larger tiers) but lives in German or Finnish jurisdiction with data retention obligations. AnubizHost offshore storage runs from Romania or Iceland, with crypto billing and no identity collection at signup. Related reading: offshore storage overview, encrypted backup hosting, AWS S3 migration.
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