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Tangent: What's the cheapest way to backup a few TB of personal data these days, pricing based on the premise that I probably will never need to retrieve it (due to local backups as well), but I don't want to pay thousands if I do have to (hundreds would be okay). Glacier Deep Archive?
Found it a lot easier than rolling my own AWS Glacier solution.
Having to restore data from Mag Tapes over decades and getting CRC errors maybe 20% of the time, this cannot possibly be worse.
You needed to run a cleaner through that tape device.
My first and only experience with tape backups was in 2014 working with the BBB of Chicago. They were using tape backups, and there I learned that almost no company that small should be using tapes. Unless you have one or two people dedicated to handling that plus whatever other backup solutions you have in place, it won't end well.
Dumb question, and I'm guessing this is a "if you don't know it's not for you" situation, but what is the point of a virtual tape? Isn't the point of a tape that it's not virtual? Or is this more replicating tape software apis (WINE/proton style) so you can get rid of physical tapes (because you no longer care about their physicality) without having to change your backup strategy?
The VTL was invented because, at the time (2012ish), none of the largest enterprise backup solutions had a good S3 interface and none supported Glacier. After talking with the backup software vendors (Spectrum, Tivoli, Symantec, Commvault, etc) it became clear that adding another backup target wasn't something we (AWS) could get them to prioritize, for perfectly reasonable reasons. We could (and did) apply pressure v…
Tangent: What's the cheapest way to backup a few TB of personal data these days, pricing based on the premise that I probably will never need to retrieve it (due to local backups as well), but I don't want to pay thousands if I do have to (hundreds would be okay). Glacier Deep Archive?
Backblaze B2 would cost you about $10/mo to store 2TB. I've been using them for years for a few tens of gigabytes worth of documents and photos. https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html edit: it integrates with TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS) so it's been pretty much set-and-forget, but I can check in and see my stuff through their management interface. I do encrypt my docs before uploading, which TrueNAS a…
Tangent: What's the cheapest way to backup a few TB of personal data these days, pricing based on the premise that I probably will never need to retrieve it (due to local backups as well), but I don't want to pay thousands if I do have to (hundreds would be okay). Glacier Deep Archive?
Tangent: What's the cheapest way to backup a few TB of personal data these days, pricing based on the premise that I probably will never need to retrieve it (due to local backups as well), but I don't want to pay thousands if I do have to (hundreds would be okay). Glacier Deep Archive?
Tangent: What's the cheapest way to backup a few TB of personal data these days, pricing based on the premise that I probably will never need to retrieve it (due to local backups as well), but I don't want to pay thousands if I do have to (hundreds would be okay). Glacier Deep Archive?
Backblaze B2 would cost you about $10/mo to store 2TB. I've been using them for years for a few tens of gigabytes worth of documents and photos. https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html edit: it integrates with TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS) so it's been pretty much set-and-forget, but I can check in and see my stuff through their management interface. I do encrypt my docs before uploading, which TrueNAS a…
Tangent: What's the cheapest way to backup a few TB of personal data these days, pricing based on the premise that I probably will never need to retrieve it (due to local backups as well), but I don't want to pay thousands if I do have to (hundreds would be okay). Glacier Deep Archive?
I have over 3TB backed up to Backblaze (in addition to a local backup) for $70/yr. That's for Mac or PC. If you're on linux, I believe they offer something for that, too.
The pro is that it has a client and, once setup, it just works.
The con is that it's a client running on a single system and the personal pricing plan doesn't support a NAS I believe. I periodically copy my files over from a RAID NAS to a local USB.
Tangent: What's the cheapest way to backup a few TB of personal data these days, pricing based on the premise that I probably will never need to retrieve it (due to local backups as well), but I don't want to pay thousands if I do have to (hundreds would be okay). Glacier Deep Archive?
Cheapest is probably a used HDD.