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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by bimbashrestha »

mendelmaleh wrote: post #28

> I actually really like Backblaze (even use B2 for this offering behind the scenes) B2 is $5/tb, you are charging $9 for 5tb? How does that work? Do the old versions count towards the quota?

It's $9/computer so if you have another computer, you can't use the same 5 TB quota. I'm banking on most people having less than 5 tb per computer to backup. It's kind of like what Backblaze Personal does for their unlimited plan but slightly lower tier I suppose (since there is no way I could do unlimited).

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by dosenbrot »

wormer wrote: post #12

Speaking of this, does anyone know about any local backups for Linux with a nice GUI? I turned into a GNOMie and don't want to spend time with commandline options to figure it out. I tried APTIK but it flat out didn't work.

I've been using BackInTime (https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Back_In_Time/) since 6 years and happy with it. - it's using rsync and hardlinks, the files on the backupdrive are just normal files - it got "smart delete" of old backups (e.g. keep 1 backup per year older 1 year, 1 per month older 1 month and 1 per week older 1 week) - starts an backup automatic in background if you attach the external drive (with udev, if you want it) - has a nice simple ui (i like it)

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by Dylan16807 »

philjohn wrote: post #11
fennecfoxen wrote: post #8

My problem: I just want to back up 5 terabytes. It's on an external SSD, used for photos. Backblaze has forgotten how to count terabytes at all, preferring to play games about how I need to have it attached and for how long, so people don't play games with their "unlimited" offering. "Did you plug in the external drive to a computer, and leave the computer on for 24 hours without it going to sleep, and reattach the d…

Jottacloud offers unlimited (in reality after 5TB they start slowing your upload speed to them) with a cli, or rclone + restic support.

It's worth noting that for most uses the throttling doesn't matter up to about 16TB, where you hit a harsh inflection point.

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by freedomben »

ricardobeat wrote: post #30
DenseComet wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Backblaze also supports that pricing model with B2, which is a fixed cost per gigabyte stored per month. B2 also has an S3 compatible API, which lets you use any backup software you want.

This. I use B2 to backup my NAS and it costs me a couple dollars a month. 5TB will cost you $25/month. The only way I know to go cheaper is Glacier “deep archive” storage which is roughly $1/TB, but a pain to manage, access time is measured in hours and it might cost 100x more in egress fees to download it all.

This matches my price research exactly, and my conclusions. Stay away from Glacier because the gotchas are not worth it. The moment you need any of your data your cost will skyrocket. Plus dealing with AWS unpredictable pricing is totally not worth it.

I b2 everything nowadays.

Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze

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Post by gingerlime »

looks great! I have a question about backing up my mac. Let’s say my mac is stolen/dropped from a bridge. Can I actually restore everything on a new mac, or still need to install and configure from scratch and “just” have a backup of documents, images etc?
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