STORAGE
BOXES.
Plain, fast storage you reach over SSH — a backup target for your servers, your laptop, or both. Use SFTP, SCP, rsync or Borg, or any tool that speaks SFTP. Flat monthly price, transfer included, no per-download fees.
- Borg
- restic
- rsync
- rclone
- Kopia
- Duplicati
- WinSCP
- FileZilla
- Cyberduck
ssh -p 23 · bend.storage.virteche.com
Example values — your username and password are in the dashboard.
Billing term
Your dashboard
Everything about the box, on one page.
The storage-box page in your dashboard, with sample data. Switch between the connection examples, take a snapshot, or add an address to the allow-list.
- touch_appConnect → pick a tool
- touch_appTake a snapshot
- touch_appAllowed IPs → + my IP
Storage box · 1 TB
sb000142 · United States (West)
Connect
- Host
- bend.storage.virteche.com
- Port
- 23
- Username
- sb000142
The server's host-key fingerprints are listed here too, to check the first time you connect.
Usage
Past the allowance, transfers slow down until the 1st — never billed.
Connection examples
sftp -P 23 [email protected]Password & SSH keys
- keyssh-ed25519 · laptop
What you get
SSH-native
SFTP, SCP, rsync and Borg on port 23, plus a restricted shell for ls, cp, mv, du and checksums.
Keys or password
Choose a password when you order, and add SSH keys from your dashboard any time.
IP allow-list
Limit logins to your own addresses. Checked before the password is even asked for.
Snapshots
Take them yourself or on a schedule: 10 to 40 per box by size. Browse and copy files back, or revert the whole box.
Transfer included
Monthly transfer equal to your box size (up to 5 TB). Past it the box slows down — it is never cut off.
Isolated
Each box sees only its own files. No other customer, and nothing else on the machine, is reachable from it.
Mirrored drives
Every file is on two drives in the western US. If one fails, your box keeps working while it is replaced.
Grow any time
Move to a larger box from the dashboard; the extra space is there within a minute.
Simple billing
Monthly, or prepay 3, 6 or 12 months for a lower rate. Cancel any time from Billing.
Questions
What is a storage box for?expand_more
Somewhere off your own machines to keep things: nightly server backups, a laptop's backup, a copy of a NAS, media and archives. You reach it over SSH, so it works with the backup tools you already use.
Which tools can I use?expand_more
Anything that speaks SFTP or rsync over SSH: Borg, restic, rclone, Kopia, Duplicati, rsync and scp on the command line, or WinSCP, FileZilla and Cyberduck on the desktop.
What happens if I use all my monthly transfer?expand_more
Your box slows down to 2 Mbit/s for the rest of the month. It is never cut off, nothing extra is charged, and the allowance resets on the 1st.
How is my data stored?expand_more
On a RAID 1 mirror in the western United States, so a failed drive does not take your box offline or lose your files. As with most storage boxes, we do not keep a separate backup of what you store. The box is usually the backup; for anything irreplaceable, keep one more copy somewhere else.
Are there snapshots?expand_more
Yes. Take one from the dashboard or set a daily, weekly or monthly schedule. A box holds 10 snapshots on 1 TB, 20 on 2 TB, 30 on 5 TB and 40 on 10 TB. Snapshots live inside your box and count toward its space; you can browse them, copy files back, or revert the whole box to one.
Can I move to a larger box later?expand_more
Yes, from your dashboard, at any time. You pay the difference for the rest of the current period, and the extra space and transfer are there within a minute. Your files, password and keys stay as they are.
Can I cancel?expand_more
Yes, from Billing at any time: at the end of the period you have paid for, or straight away. Cancelling straight away deletes the box and its files.
Switching
Moving From Hetzner or rsync.netarrow_forward
Copy your data across and repoint Borg, restic or rsync.
Storage
Need the S3 API Instead?arrow_forward
Object storage: buckets and keys for S3 tools and SDKs.
Guide
Storage Box or Object Storage?arrow_forward
Which one suits your tools and how you restore.
Guides for Storage Boxes
All guides- Guide · 9 minHow to Back Up a Linux Server with BorgEncrypted, deduplicated nightly backups of a Linux server to a storage box over SSH: set up once with a key, pruned automatically, and tested by restoring.
- Guide · 7 minConnecting to a Storage Box: SFTP, rsync, restic and rcloneA storage box is reached over SSH on port 23. How to use it from sftp, scp and rsync, and how to point restic, rclone, Kopia and SFTP apps at it.
- Guide · 6 minStorage Box vs Object Storage (S3)One is a disk you reach over SSH; the other is an HTTP API for apps and S3 tools. Which suits your backups depends on the tools you use and how you restore.
- Guide · 8 minBorg vs restic vs Kopia vs rclone: Which Backup Tool to UseFour open-source backup tools compared on encryption, deduplication, storage, Windows support and clean-up, and which fits a server, a laptop or a mix.
- Guide · 6 minHow to Mount a Storage Box or S3 Bucket as a DriveUse remote storage like a local folder: rclone mount on Windows, macOS and Linux, SSHFS on Linux, and the cache settings that stop apps from misbehaving.
- Guide · 5 minThe 3-2-1 Backup Rule for ServersThree copies, two kinds of storage, one off-site, and the two things the rule leaves out: copies a hacked server cannot delete, and testing that restores work.