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Re: The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

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Post by e40 »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #61
joshfee wrote: post #29

I use B2 as the backend for my personal backups using restic (which I would highly recommend https://github.com/restic/restic ). I don't have a ton of data to backup, so even with hourly backups (restic only backs up when there are changes) I have ~100GB and it runs me a whopping $0.60/month. I almost feel guilty when I get the bill. But the minute I need to pick a storage platform in a professional context I know wh…

For $9/month you would get a lot more features from the backup service. The interesting ones being File Sharing and Extended Version History. So it depends if you want those, as well as a nice web UI. And at 1TB the numbers get closer, at 2TB it becomes cheaper to use the backup service. The main thing for me is legacy. In my will it is a lot easier to explain how to get files from the standard backup plan, rather th…

With rclone B2 has backup on delete, which you can expire after an arbitrary period.

I used to be a Backup customer until recently when it threw out errors on my macOS machine. The solution according to support was to remove my backup including version history. When I complained that was a problem, they suggested a second account, which they would refund the price for, after I made the switch.

Rclone give me more control, which I like. I use tmutil to create snapshots of what I backup, too. Very slick.

Re: The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

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Post by Gazoche »

CTDOCodebases wrote: post #97
joshfee wrote: post #29

I use B2 as the backend for my personal backups using restic (which I would highly recommend https://github.com/restic/restic ). I don't have a ton of data to backup, so even with hourly backups (restic only backs up when there are changes) I have ~100GB and it runs me a whopping $0.60/month. I almost feel guilty when I get the bill. But the minute I need to pick a storage platform in a professional context I know wh…

B2 is great if you don't test your backups.

Your comment worries me - are there known data integrity concerns with B2?

Re: The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

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Post by southernplaces7 »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #83
epcoa wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s $9 per computer, not directly comparable to raw storage to use however you want. I get there are ways around this (host a local centralized backup) but that then sort of destroys the turnkey part anyway.

The per computer thing made me move to iDrive but I will move back for the UX. I am going to do a hybrid where one computer is backed up with the majority of files, and for other computers use free Dropbox tiers.

Depending on which service from iDrive you use, the total lack of deduplication with its personal backup service was a complete no-go for me. If you can't dedupe, any changes to your folder names or locations provoke a whole new upload cycle, which is absurd.

Re: The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

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Post by gadders »

magicalhippo wrote: post #67
CharlesW wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Crashplan is much better but went professional only, sadly. How do you mean? CrashPlan Essential (200GB) is $3/mo. CrashPlan Professional (unlimited) is $88/year.

Perhaps they reverted their decision, but they did indeed discontinue their Crashplan service for non-businesses[1]. I was using it at the time and had to find an alternative, which I never really did. I tried restic and similar programs, but they were all too slow finding what changed. The key to Crashplan was that it monitored the filesystem for changes, so it didn't have to do an expensive traversal. In the end I…

I wished they'd emailed me back and told me. Now if I want to switch back I need to run two solutions concurrently until the Crashplan is fully populated again.

What a stunning way to reduce customers. Their Biz Dev people must be so proud.

Re: The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

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Post by akira2501 »

sofixa wrote: post #118
andrewxdiamond wrote: post #64

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Yeah turns out S3 is expensive because all those 9s cost $$$

Also the cool features around deletion prevention, automatic lifecycle management.

Durable S3 event delivery and free transfer out to same region services also make it easy to build large chunks of useful infrastructure out of it.

Re: The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

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Post by cvalka »

dsissitka wrote: post #93
cvalka wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only for one backend (restic server). It does NOT support append only for S3 or other backends which is the most frequently used scenario.

And some setups with rclone. How is that different from restic? The documented rclone setup doesn't support append-only in any meaningful way.

Sorry, I do not understand your comment. I will reiterate my statement. Use Rustic instead of restic.

Re: The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

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Post by gadders »

CharlesW wrote: post #75
magicalhippo wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps they reverted their decision, but they did indeed discontinue their Crashplan service for non-businesses[1]. I was using it at the time and had to find an alternative, which I never really did. I tried restic and similar programs, but they were all too slow finding what changed. The key to Crashplan was that it monitored the filesystem for changes, so it didn't have to do an expensive traversal. In the end I…

As the article notes, they just ended the "CrashPlan for Home" plan and decided not to do B2C marketing, but they remain happy to take money from individuals. At the time I just migrated to "CrashPlan for Business" and paid them $10/mo (because I have a NAS), but thanks to your note I'll be moving to CrashPlay Pro (which is cheaper on a yearly basis).

At the time of the migration, they seemed like they very much did not want my money as an individual.
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