Backup AWS S3 bucket to external location
Aside from S3 bucket replication feature you might want to backup your data outside of your current cloud provider (for a myriad of valid reasons).
If you’re in Europe you might consider Hetzner which once again offers the best bang for your buck; alternatively - if you’re based in the US - Backblaze might be a better fit. Either way, I recommend using rclone which integrates out-of-the-box with S3 and all the protocols you can think of.
Few tips based on my personal experience:
enable encryption right away, but be aware that you might run into limitations if you have long filenames, like over 143 characters
observe AWS costs, as S3 can skyrocket, depending on your buckets structure (and of course - bucket size); to make the backup job less API/transfer heavy a lot of folks experiment with fast-list, size-only, no-traverse and max-age; all this depends on how you structure your data and might depend on backup destination, just don’t be surprised about monthly AWS bill.
if you’re experimenting with
rcloneon a metal node using crontab you can stream the logs to syslog from your crontab entry for easier debugging(/usr/local/bin/rclone copy -v rest-of-your-command) 2>&1 | logger -t backup-rclonetechnically you can mount even encrypted drive directly to your local system (even on MacOS) - it can be slightly slow if you try to open ridiculously big bucket/directory
For remote-to-local backups with versioning I also use restic which can be paired with rclone, but I recall running into some edge cases and abandoning the idea.