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

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Post by xiphias2 »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #79
xiphias2 wrote: post #70

Is there a Google Drive clone with encrypted backups? I love the usability of Google Drive (being able to access / make files offline whenever I want), but the Mac update started to force me to upload all my files, which I don't want to do, as the files are not encrypted.

Google Drive with rclone and the crypt layer ( https://rclone.org/crypt/ )?

It looks like a command line application, I'm looking for something with a great OS X, iOS, Android and web GUI (and happy to pay for it).

Dropbox looks similar to Google Drive with the same problem (No E2E encryption)

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

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Post by XorNot »

xiphias2 wrote: post #70

Is there a Google Drive clone with encrypted backups? I love the usability of Google Drive (being able to access / make files offline whenever I want), but the Mac update started to force me to upload all my files, which I don't want to do, as the files are not encrypted.

It won't give you cloud just at the moment, but syncthing supports "untrusted peers" which keep all your files encrypted when they're on that remote.

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

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Post by XorNot »

stavros wrote: post #77
bimbashrestha wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Borg supports local and SFTP backups while Restic supports more (a lot more). S3, Google Cloud, B2, etc. In fact, they integrate with rclone so anything you can access using rclone, you can backup to using Restic. Borg uses compression while Restic does not. Restic just uses deduplication so your backups with Restic will likely be larger in size. Anyway, that's what jumps to mind. They're both pretty great honestly (…

Do you know if Restic supports block-level deduplication? I am backing up some database dumps and the backup filesystem has ballooned in size, even though the dumps are 99% identical every day. This makes me suspect that they only deduplicate on the file level, and that I would have some very significant savings if I zipped the dumps before backing up. EDIT: Some details on deduplication are here, and I'm puzzled as…

Restics dedupe window is tuned to a 1mb boundary - it's optimised for cloud provider IOPS.

Bup with it's rsync sized one always did much better for databases for me.

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

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Post by ianopolous »

agucova wrote: post #24

If this would allow me to check my files in a simple web UI (no need for collaboration or anything), and create share links for low-volume downloads I could just leave Google Drive permanently.

If you want encrypted file storage with secret share links then you might be interested in https://peergos.org (disclaimer: I'm one of the creators)

Here's an example secret link: https://peergos.net/#%7B%22secretLink%22:true%2c%22link%22:%...

It's P2P, fully open source including the server, self-hostable, audited by Cure53, can use S3 compatible block storage or local disk and built on top of IPFS.

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

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Post by wanderingmind »

Not to throw shades, but I think we have restic which is awesome for backup across multiple backends (through rclone). What is needed is a user friendly GUI to use restic for regular folks. I hope some one can use this framework to create a simple GUI for restic for windows/Mac users afraid of the terminal.

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

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Post by throwthere »

leetrout wrote: post #56

My goto tool for secure backups is tarsnap. He only supports S3 as far as I know so using B2 could be a good differentiator. Wonder if either of you will add support for cloudflares R2? https://www.tarsnap.com/

I think price is the main differentiator here. TarSnap is 50x as expensive.

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

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Post by bimbashrestha »

wanderingmind wrote: post #85

Not to throw shades, but I think we have restic which is awesome for backup across multiple backends (through rclone). What is needed is a user friendly GUI to use restic for regular folks. I hope some one can use this framework to create a simple GUI for restic for windows/Mac users afraid of the terminal.

Idk if you caught this but Blobbackup uses restic under the hood and I'm planning on adding support for other storages in the future.

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

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Post by magicalhippo »

bimbashrestha wrote: post #31
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).

You probably will want to have something to discourage the data hoarders. They might not be many in numbers, but they can rack up quite the TB count.

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

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Post by wanderingmind »

bimbashrestha wrote: post #87
wanderingmind wrote: post #85

Not to throw shades, but I think we have restic which is awesome for backup across multiple backends (through rclone). What is needed is a user friendly GUI to use restic for regular folks. I hope some one can use this framework to create a simple GUI for restic for windows/Mac users afraid of the terminal.

Idk if you caught this but Blobbackup uses restic under the hood and I'm planning on adding support for other storages in the future.

Sorry missed it. I'm gonna use it soon then. It would also be useful to get the blessing of restic community by posting it in their forum.

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

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Post by ydant »

breakingcups wrote: post #62
ydant wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depending on your access patterns, Wasabi ( https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing/ ) could be cheaper, since they charge more $5.99/TB, but don't charge for egress ($0.01/GB at B2) or API calls ("GetObject" at $0.004 per 10,000 at B2).

Note that you can only egress as much as you have stored in total per month with Wasabi. So if you've stored 10GB on Wasabi, you're only allowed to egress 10GB each month. So yes, really depends on your access patterns.

Thank you for pointing that out. I definitely hadn't internalized that point.

https://wasabi.com/paygo-pricing-faq/#free-egress-policy

> If your use case exceeds the guidelines of our free egress policy on a regular basis, we reserve the right to limit or suspend your service.

Sounds like it's a soft limit, so ok for backups. I normally pull about 100GB/month (just verifying files) on a 4TB backup set, so I don't usually hit this.

I do think this should be more clearly started in the pricing page, though.

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The other gotcha with Wasabi is you pay for a minimum of 90 days of storage for each file (so if you upload, then delete it immediately, it's billed for 3 months regardless). This, again, is fine for backups for me, but definitely has made some early months where I was figuring out my backup strategy a bit more expensive than it might otherwise have been.

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