Hi,
I am starting to setup a remote backup on a Hetzner Storage Box. I can use either a filesystem repo (with a cifs mount) or an sftp repo. I have tested both and both are working. But what is the preferred connection with regard to stability?
Are there any other specific settings I need to know about?
Matthias
I use a Hetzner “storage box” with the WebDAV protocol in Kopia. And this is working fine for me since “years” 
Would be interesting to see numbers in comparison to CIFS or SFTP, but I never measured it. And actually it doesn’t matter much for me, because Kopia is that fast anyway, backup runs only taking seconds to minutes, which is perfectly fine.
That is good!
In the meantime I have setup the Hetzner storage box with sftp and that works great. I consider sftp more secure because it uses ssh for authentication and encryption. Also, I have seen bad webdav performance for big files in a nextcloud environment. That does not need to be the case for kopia. But it gives me a bad feeling in general with regard to webdav.
Anyways, I have to say that I have dropped kopia. The “fix missing blobs” thread here in the forum convinced me that kopia is not as robust as restic.
Restic might be a little slower (I dont know) but it is much easier to handle and it really gives me a good feeling for data integrity in a remote repository.