# Hetzner storage box: best practise

**URL:** <https://kopia.discourse.group/t/hetzner-storage-box-best-practise/8811>\
**Category:** General Topics\
**Created:** [February 25, 2026, 6:45pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/hetzner-storage-box-best-practise/8811 "2026-02-25T18:45:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 6:45pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/hetzner-storage-box-best-practise/8811/1 "2026-02-25T18:45:30Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![alexbarton](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/alexbarton/32/1218_2.png) [@alexbarton](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/alexbarton)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 11:32am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/hetzner-storage-box-best-practise/8811/2 "2026-03-16T11:32:51Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![mabod](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/mabod/32/941_2.png) [@mabod](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/mabod)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 4:31pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/hetzner-storage-box-best-practise/8811/3 "2026-03-16T16:31:47Z")

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> [@alexbarton](#):
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> I use a Hetzner “storage box” with the WebDAV protocol in Kopia. And this is working fine for me since “years”

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.

> [@How to fix missing blobs?](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/how-to-fix-missing-blobs/3380/15):
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> I did some more testing and I think this is a flaw in kopia compared to restic. It is very simple to reproduce and I would love to see some folks here trying to reproduce it. create a test repo create a source directory with just on bigger file to backup, e.g. in my case /data/datatmp/aaa/debian-13.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso backup with kopia remove a blob. If you happen to remove a blob from the repos manifest, the repo is broken and you have to repeat step 1-3 until you remove a blob that belong…

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.