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S3 is now the standard for cloud storage APIs? Not sure if that's good or bad. I guess competitors have to reduce switching costs.
S3 is now the standard for cloud storage APIs? Not sure if that's good or bad. I guess competitors have to reduce switching costs.
Edit: Confused Hetzner and OVH, sorry
S3 is now the standard for cloud storage APIs? Not sure if that's good or bad. I guess competitors have to reduce switching costs.
That's a good question to ask. S3 has become so common that it's going toward that road. It's like brand names that become so common that people use no more the material name, but the brand.
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Yev here -> Anyone can write to the B2 Native API or our S3 Compatible API, we have tons of integrations that do it, here's a list -> https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html
I don't think that's what gp meant. Why not use a standard protcol like SFTP?
Just a year ago B2 couldn't do server-side file copying.[1] If you wanted to rename or move a file you had to re-upload the whole thing (not great for large multi-gigabyte files)! That ruled them out of consideration for storing my personal backups. Glad to see they've since fixed that, and with this update are clearly continuing to improve ergonomics. I'll have to give B2 a fresh look. [1]: https://github.com/Backbl…
On the other hand tools that don't view the object storage as a file system have way less gotchas.
In my experience B2 + restic works really well.
I would absolutely love to replace my use of S3 with B2 as a backup for data stored elsewhere. Personally, I would much rather this storage to to a service that only does storage, rather than everything else that AWS does, so I don't have to worry about anything strange happening in a cloud service I don't use every day. When they first launched B2, I inquired about ability to enter into a BAA (Business Associates Ag…
Yev here -> Double good news for you this morning: we're now signing BAAs for B2 Cloud Storage ;-) Just contact sales and they can get you sorted out!
I have a decent sized music collection consisting a lot of lossless vinyl rips that I've made from my record collection. It totals around 200gigs at the moment but is growing weekly. I've been looking for somewhere to back this all up in the cloud and backblaze is looking most promising at the moment. Anyone here have any thoughts on where I should go with this?
I would recommend restic with B2. Really simple to set up. I use it for nightly homedir backups for multiple machines. Currently at ~400GB and it's costing me < $3/month.
So you are only paying for Storage. ( Correct me if I am on this one )
I wonder why doesn't ALL non HyperScale Cloud Vendors, like Linode and DO provide one click third party backup to B2. You should always store offsite backup somewhere. And B2 is perfect.
S3 is now the standard for cloud storage APIs? Not sure if that's good or bad. I guess competitors have to reduce switching costs.
Digital Ocean, OVH and others seem to use the S3 API. It does give you the benefit of clients written against S3 can now be used for your platform, and unlike a lot of AWS the API contract seems pretty reasonable and well kept. Edit: Confused Hetzner and OVH, sorry