MinIO's open-source community edition is dead: console GUI stripped May
2025, Docker images stopped publishing October 2025, repo formally
archived April 2026, with MinIO redirecting everyone to their paid AIStor
product. Verified this directly before building anything, since recommending
a since-abandoned image would have been worse than the SFTP problem this
was meant to solve.
Garage (Deuxfleurs) is the actively-maintained small-scale self-hosted
replacement — single Rust binary, purpose-built for exactly this "one
lightweight node" use case (as opposed to SeaweedFS, which targets large
object counts / large-scale deployments, more machinery than a single
backup-mirror target needs).
services/garage.sh follows this repo's standard service template: port
scanning for the S3 API/RPC/admin ports, an RPC secret generated once and
never touched again on Update, and a one-time cluster init sequence
(layout assign/apply, bucket create, key create, bucket allow) gated on
whether .env already has a saved access key — Update reruns skip all of it
and just refresh the image.
Primary intended use: a local S3-compatible target for services/backup.sh's
additional-mirror Kopia sync, so a local mirror can reuse the exact same
sync-to s3 code path already proven reliable for the Backblaze B2 mirror,
instead of Kopia's separate, less-exercised SFTP backend that's been the
source of today's connection troubleshooting.
Verified end-to-end against a mocked environment (fake docker exec
returning realistic `garage status`/`garage key create` output) — caught
and fixed a real off-by-one in the status-output parsing this way (grabbed
the column-header row's literal "ID" instead of the actual node ID; output
has a title line, then a header line, then the data row). Also validated
the generated docker-compose.yml with real `docker compose config` in both
the no-network and network-created cases.
Claude
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