Who are we?
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
-- 5-4-3-2-1-bang from this thread
Aimed at self hosting, but S3-compatible and designed to run at different physical locations?
Surely the venn diagram for that has not such a big overlap?
S3 compatible means tooling compatible. Plenty of small to medium operations who aren’t tripping over themselves to throw money at the cloud. A couple guys with hardware admin and docker admin experience is ridiculously cheaper.
Ok, that's fair, thank you.
But distributed geographical sites? Useful for SME's and above, but aside from a few edge cases where friends might want to share hosting resources, is that a homelab thing?
I think the distributed feature is just a bonus really.
If I had to strawman a homelabber use case, maybe you’re a very data conscious photographer or videographer and you set up another storage array at your parents house as part of your back up system. 🤷
I use garage locally for low stakes stuff and so far it works as advertised.
I get ~300mb/s on large files from fast SSD, small files are quick too.
System seems very stable and running in docker only uses ~18mb idle.
I've briefly tried both Garage and MinIO and they both work as advertised. Though I did it for experimentation on self-hosted services, so I don't have any experience with large-scale or real-world use.
I really wish projects like this would prioritize having an English-language presence on fedi.