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Backblaze. They ship you TB external hard drives with all your data for a fee, and refund the fee if you return the drives.
It would great if they would keep that level of convenience for external drives. Backblaze deleting external drive backups every 30 days [1] is maddening. [1]: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217664898-What-...
I own some land in rural TN, with a winterized trailer and access to spring water. that is backup water and shelter for minimal cost. A person/year of shelf-stable food (not fun, but indefinitely survivable) is about $1000. So if I am smart about it, and fall back gracefully, every $3k-$4k in savings is a year of "backup survival". I still need to make sure I have at least a year's worth of currency in a liquid form…
If banking fails your dollars are going to be in a world of hurt. Do you invest in gold/silver, too? Unrelated question, what part of TN is your unprotected, cash filled trailer in?
Retired, so no need for work/personal separation, but I never did it before, but made sure that my company knew any work I did at home was going onto my general tape backups and was not going to be deleted any time soon after I left the company. Nowadays: most important stuff, rsync.net, more than a bit expensive at 20 cents/GB/month, but their many other virtues and especially simplicity make up for it, including su…
> Now that I've got a serious Internet connection, if I was starting over, and didn't have the sunk costs of the LTO-4 tape drive system (drive, SAS controller, fast disk to feed it) and plenty of tapes, I'd probably do this level of backup to the cloud at a fairly raw level to S3, Glacier, GCS, or Backblaze. Personal warning to anyone else attempting to create a multi-drive setup with Backblaze. Backblaze deletes ex…
(As someone who's been using tape drive backups since 1978, DECtape to start with, fortunately before I learned the -rf flags for rm ^_^, I'm not a conventional user.)
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It would great if they would keep that level of convenience for external drives. Backblaze deleting external drive backups every 30 days [1] is maddening. [1]: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217664898-What-...
Wow, I didn't know about that.... that's disappointing.
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Wow, I didn't know about that.... that's disappointing.
I'm pretty confident they make it intentionally hidden so you don't know until it affects you. For example, titling the FAQ "What happens to my backups when I'm away or on vacation?" vs "What is your external drive retention policy?"
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I'm pretty confident they make it intentionally hidden so you don't know until it affects you. For example, titling the FAQ "What happens to my backups when I'm away or on vacation?" vs "What is your external drive retention policy?"
I don't think it's hidden. Backblaze will warn you if it hasn't seen a drive in a few days, and right in that email is the heads up that the drive will be deleted. I thought it was also in the external drive management pane of the app. However if you just let Backblaze do its thing, and don't have warnings enabled, you might get got good.
Works on Windows, Mac and Linux, $150/yr gets you unlimited number of machines and unlimited storage, it keeps unlimited versions for recovery.
Also important - data sent to cloud encrypted.
I use multiple Blackblaze accounts ( https://www.backblaze.com/ ). My requirements, and why I picked Blackblaze: 1) Work and personal data must be kept separate. (I use multiple Blackblaze accounts.) 2) Backups must be continuous and happen behind the scenes, I must never have to manually trigger a backup. 3) Must be able to restore not just a file, but a file on a specific date (Blackblaze keeps all changes for up t…
4) Must be secure, encrypted, and support 2FA. Doesn't Backblaze require that you enter your password/keyphrase on their website to restore from an encrypted backup?
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My general expectation is to the contrary. I think people underestimate how psychologically ingrained the dollar is into the american people. Money will still be worth something, maybe not as much as I like, but something. People have so much faith in the system, that everybody will be hedging against "when things get better". Even then "failure of banking" does not have to be universal. Maybe my assets are frozen or…
I would personally stockpile hard liquor if I wanted to hedge for a social collapse. Whiskey never goes bad, it's always useful and a few ounces can go a long way.
Bup. https://github.com/bup/bup Git + bloom filters + Python I backup hundreds of thousands of user accounts at cloud.sagemath.com using it, plus my own data, etc. I've been using it for four years and haven't found anything better for my requirements.
When I examined the available backup schemes that are were built off of a content-addressible storage scheme, all of them had one shortcoming or another except for Borg. If I remember correctly, Bup's shortcoming is that it is git based and hence architected to be immutable, meaning that pruning old backups is hairy.
bup does have a huge advantage of deduplicating multiple machine images that can backup simulatenously. With Borg, there is a lock held on the repository (only one machine at a time), and if multiple machines do use the same repository, they will need to download the indices (Slow compared to bup's bloom filter), or use sshfs etc (slow)
borg also has internal encryption. If only borg adopts bup's bloom filters and concurrent access, it will only have advantages...