Hey welcome!
Since when have you started using backupspider?
Not my intention to ask a rude question yet why would you want some other alternative to what you are using if it’s ~to being free.
1Fichier 10-15$/year for 2TB cold storage and unlimited hot storage
Atleast usually… Atm it seems 22€. Wait for an offer or ask @sanvit if he still has 15$ keys^^
No worries Backing up to 1Fichier via FTP works without any problems for me. Just remember you can’t “create” any folders or anything. So it is best to create an extra FTP user for backups instead of using your main 1Fichier FTP Acc and assign the new FTP user a backup directory you previously created for it via webgui (e.g. “backups”)
Why not use backblaze b2 + rclone serve ftp? That will cost you $5/TB billed only for what you use, and if you connect to it via CloudFlare, outbound bandwidth will be free. rclone serve webdav worked flawlessly for me with Google Drive, never personally tested with FTP +B2 though
Edit : come to think of it, rclone serve ftp with Google Drive (if you have an unlimited GDrive account such as edu or business) or OneDrive (if you have office 365 access as a student/business/O365 subscriber) should also work fine.
If you already have a server at Hetzner you can add an extra 12 TB HDD to it for some 30 euros per month. I don’t think you can get it anywhere cheaper than that…
So conceivably with 1fichier you could choose the Registered tier for free 1 TB backup. And if you ever need it, upgrade to a paid tier (for even 24h) and download it. Is that right?
Nuts, if only my NAS supported FTP backups. Guess I could still use it to manually backup my Linux ISO collection.