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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/momsi91 on 2025-05-28 08:36:26+00:00.

I recently thought about restructuring my backups and migrating to restic (used borg until now).

Now I read a bunch of posts about people hosting their own S3 storage with things like minio (or not so much minio anymore since the latest stir up…)

I asked myself why? If your on your own storage anyways, S3 adds a factor of complexity, so in case of total disaster you have to get an S3 service up and running before you’re able to access your backups.

I just write my backups to a plain file system backend, put a restic binary in there also, so in total disaster I can recover, even if I only have access to the one backup, independent on any other service.

I get that this is not an issue with commercial object storage backends, but in case of self hosting minio or garage, I only see disadvantages… what am I missing?