Garage seems to only to duplication https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/design/goals/

> Storage optimizations: erasure coding or any other coding technique both increase the difficulty of placing data and synchronizing; we limit ourselves to duplication.

This is probably a nogo for most use cases where you work with large datasets....

Yes I mentioned it in the context of homelabs, it’s not an alternative to Ceph or MinIO for large installations.

But the simplicity is appreciated. You can recover all the data using rsync.