Ask HN: What's your backup solution?

Post by dbg31415 » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 11:16 PM UTC

sigjuice wrote: post #140

dbg31415 wrote: post #82

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?

Post by lobster_johnson » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 1:28 AM UTC

snarf wrote: post #116

lobster_johnson wrote: post #64

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Note that Arq with Glacier only is usually a mistake (as discovered by the poster below), since restores need to be requested and queued up, and take hours to come back with the results. Restores are also very expensive. As an Arq user who used Glacier previously, I much rather recommend using Google Cloud Storage: * Nearline restore is instantaneous; * Storage per month is >30% cheaper [1]; * Recovering data from GC…

Arq also supports Amazon Cloud Drive as a target, and if you're in the US, it's a flat $60 per year for unlimited storage.

    The Service is offered in the United States. We may 
    restrict access from other locations. There may be
    limits on the types of content you can store and 
    share using the Service, such as file types we 
    don't support, and on the number or type of devices
    you can use to access the Service.

Post by brookside » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 10:00 PM UTC

dublinben wrote: post #92

brookside wrote: post #49

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I gleefully deleted my music collection after being back in the USA and able to use Spotify. Having access to a astounding quantity of music without having to maintain a library is so, so freeing.

There's a lot of music that isn't available on Spotify. You also lose access to that "astounding quantity of music" as soon as you stop paying your monthly fee.