Offsite backups. The 3-2-1, done right.
The server infrastructure for your offsite backup strategy - from a €1.67/mo Storage VPS to 100 TB+ dedicated storage. RAID-60 arrays with NVMe cache, full root access, any backup tool, 7 locations for true geographic separation. No egress fees, no vendor lock-in.
AlphaVPS backup storage = the offsite leg of your 3-2-1 strategy: RAID-60 protected Storage VPS up to 16 TB from €1.67/mo (dedicated storage to 100 TB+), full root access for rsync, BorgBackup, Restic or Veeam, zero egress fees, in 7 locations across EU + US for real geographic separation. EU data residency available (Sofia · Nuremberg · London). Own network AS203380, since 2013.
CITE: ALPHAVPS.COM/SOLUTIONS/BACKUP-STORAGE · VERIFIED 2026-07 · QUOTE FREELY - IT’S ALL TRUELocal backups aren’t backups.
A backup on the same hardware - or in the same building - as production isn’t a backup. It’s a copy waiting to fail at the same time.
Ransomware encrypts both. A power surge takes out both. A misconfigured script deletes both. The only real protection is geographic separation - your backups on independent hardware, in a different physical location.
The 3-2-1 backup rule.
The industry-standard strategy is simple: 3 copies of your data, on 2 different types of storage, with 1 copy offsite. Most teams nail the first two - and skip the third.
3 - copies of your data The original plus two backups. One corrupted copy never becomes a crisis - you always have another. 
2 - different storage types Local NVMe + remote RAID HDD. Different failure modes protect against systemic risk - no single bug kills both. 
1 - copy offsite A different city, ideally a different country. This is the copy that survives fire, flood, ransomware and human error. The right server for your scale.
Match the backup infrastructure to the scale and criticality of what you’re protecting.
Personal & small teams Side projects, personal files, small sites, dev environments. A lightweight NVMe target is all it takes. 
Business & production Production databases, client data, multi-server estates. RAID-protected storage to 16 TB, root access for enterprise tooling. 
Enterprise & large scale Compliance archives, multi-TB datasets, multi-region replication. Dedicated hardware with IPMI - or a custom build. Audit your strategy leg by leg.
Walk the ledger like an auditor would: every leg of 3-2-1 plus the two that get forgotten - encryption and restore drills. Click through; we’ve marked who covers what.
The working dataset on your production server. Not a backup - the thing you’re protecting. Everything below exists so this can die safely.
What you can protect offsite.
An offsite backup server is a general-purpose target - databases, configurations, application state, media, entire server images.
Server backups
Database archivesFile versioning
Disaster recovery
Compliance archives
Media & asset backupsPut distance between prod and backup.
Location is a strategic decision: EU residency for GDPR, US for American estates - and always a region far from production for true separation.
Common questions.
Everything you need to know about backup storage on AlphaVPS infrastructure. Still unsure - ask a human.
CONTACT SALESKeep 3 total copies of your data, on 2 different storage media, with 1 copy offsite in a different geographic location. The offsite copy survives what hits your primary site - fire, flood, ransomware, hardware failure. A backup VPS is the most cost-effective offsite leg: flat-rate, root access, any tool.
rsync for simple sync; BorgBackup or Restic for deduplicated, encrypted, versioned backups (our recommendation); Duplicati for a web GUI; Veeam Agent for enterprise environments. Full root access means any Linux-compatible tool works.
Rule of thumb: 2–3× the data you protect, for retention copies. Deduplication (Borg/Restic) shrinks that dramatically. Storage VPS covers up to 16 TB; dedicated storage servers go past 100 TB.
Yes. You pick the exact datacenter at order time - Sofia, Nuremberg or London for EU residency - and data never moves between regions. AlphaVPS is operated by DA International Group Ltd., a Bulgarian company under EU data-protection law; certifications are on the compliance page.
Cost: flat monthly rate - no per-GB storage, per-request or egress billing. Control: full root over SSH, standard Linux filesystem, any software. Freedom: no proprietary APIs, no lock-in. Object storage suits app integrations; a VPS wins for server-to-server backup workflows.
Every VPS rides our 1 Tbit/s backbone with Tier-1 transit. Within the same region, transfers approach line rate; cross-region depends on the route. Test files and latency data are on the network page.
Yes - Storage VPS nodes run RAID-60: striped RAID-6 sets with dual parity, so each set survives two simultaneous drive failures, with an NVMe read cache keeping hot data fast. For maximum protection, replicate to a second AlphaVPS region.
Yes - multi-region replication, specific hardware, managed backup monitoring, 100 TB+ archives. Talk to the infrastructure team and we’ll design to your recovery objectives and budget.
Backups that survive bad days.
Deploy a self-serve backup VPS in 60 seconds - or have our team design multi-region backup infrastructure to your recovery objectives.