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It was such a shortsighted way of setting things up and a pain to administer. We're talking $10/month for salespeople that are paid 6 digit salaries.
They're going to have to migrate now.
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Disclosure: I work at Backblaze. For Linux, Backblaze offers "B2 Object Storage". You can choose all sorts of Linux 3rd party clients! The billing is different -> half of 1 penny per GByte per month. This is cheaper for less than a Terabyte, and can be a bit more expensive for more than a Terabyte. Check the "integrations" page for pictures of a penguin: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html Among others, Cl…
I just want a simple, predictable flat fee, not a pricing guide ... https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217667478-Under...
https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html (Scroll down to "B2 Cost Calculator")
If you type in the size of your hard drive, that will be the "predictable bill" you will get each day.
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I've always been a big fan of BB's blog, and have recommended their approach to friends and clients for their own blogs and sites. Their data, plans, and progress are not only interesting to people who care about the industry, but it's also a window into the kind of people they are. Proud of their accomplishments (their backup servers, which they've open sourced), and their tools (like their server lifts).
Poor thing, it's a blog. It's maintained and updated by the consumer oriented corporate brand. It's marketing. I am not saying it's evil or that your wrong, but that your deductions are illogical.
I'm a bit partial though, as that fits us quite well in what we are doing at our place.
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I have an account with rsync.net and I like them a lot for their Unix-friendly services. However, I unfortunately have to recommend that you NOT use rsync.net if you are on a Comcast/Xfinity cable modem. rsync.net has some kind of problem with the "Powerboost" feature. The first 10 megabytes of a transfer are fast as hell, then it drops to ~150kB/s. Have fun backing up gigabytes at that speed. There is something wron…
Do Comcast throttle torrents for you? Perhaps the traffic to rsync in some way looks like torrents to them. Or like spam/DOS or something like that. Or like a competitor. The things I've read about Comcast are not pretty, alas.
I actually have 3 Crashplan for Families under my hands. My mom and dads iMacs is one of them. This is literally easy money for Crashplan. But the price would double to move them to the new Small Business plan. What I liked about Crashplan, besides the unlimited space was that if files would get deleted, and you would find out about it 3 months later, you could recover them. With Backblaze, which is mentioned here, y…
I'm in this same predicament. I used to have to do constant backup/restore on family member computers, and Crashplan really made that painless. This transition is going to be a real pain. So far it doesn't look like they're keeping the free peer-to-peer backups, which I was using for the less important computers, so this would more than double the price if I went for the SB plans.
Yeah, it seems that not only would the peer-to-peer backup process stop working, the already-backed-up files would be rendered useless too.
Relying on user accounts and "backup codes" stored on CrashPlan's servers sounds like it was an additional point of failure.
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Some folks at r/DataHoarder recommend Duplicati: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/6vbcok/crashpl...
I'm pretty sure that whatever solution the r/datahoarder people go for is exactly the one I DON'T want to choose. Those are the exact people who make attractive pricing unsustainable.
SyncThing+cloud storage seems most promising but I've not actually tried it yet.
Well, this sucks. CrashPlan was awesome in that it doubled as both a backup app and a cloud storage solution. Since I had my settings set to NEVER remove deleted files, I didn't need to have each of my backed up external hard-drives plugged in at all times in order to have them backed up. I could just plug them in as needed, make sure Windows assigned them a unique drive letter, and let Crashplan sync any new data up…
Is there any open source cross platform solution that 1. encrypts stuff on the client machine 2. has a pluggable backend - i.e. can push to one (or several of) e.g. S3, equivalent commodity cloud offerings, an NFS server or an arbitrary server 3. Rotates backups 4. Depuplicates (does this conflict with clientside encryption?) 5. "Just works" (I'm happy with a config file)