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

#61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

And really, at that point, don't be a cheapskate, it's already super cheap (and reliable), so buy another account (or two, or three).

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

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post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

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

#63

Interesting. I had not heard of restic, yet. My default backup choice has been borg[1] for a long time, so borgbase.com was a natural choice for off-site backups for me. They make Vorta a decent GUI client for borg - that's how I found out about them. Can someone here give a comparison of borg and restic by any chance? [1]: https://www.borgbackup.org/

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 (…

The rclone backend is a killer feature of Restic - using it in my home setup which is:

6 computers backing up using UrBackup client to a 6 drive 2U NAS running Raid Z2 and UrBackup server (which is nice as it stores incremental backups as ZFS child datasets).

I then have a post backup script which creates a snapshot of the latest backup, mounts it, backs up using Restic using the JottaCloud rclone backend.

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

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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.

Crash plan pro is still around. About ten bucks a month for unlimited backup per machine.

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

#65

Interesting. I had not heard of restic, yet. My default backup choice has been borg[1] for a long time, so borgbase.com was a natural choice for off-site backups for me. They make Vorta a decent GUI client for borg - that's how I found out about them. Can someone here give a comparison of borg and restic by any chance? [1]: https://www.borgbackup.org/

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

#67

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…

“5 terabytes is so little that I've forgotten how to count that low.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI

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

#69

Would be cool to back this to decentralized cloud storage (should be pretty easy to do via Storj S3 integration): https://docs.storj.io/dcs/getting-started/quickstart-aws-sdk... Or even Restic directly: https://docs.storj.io/dcs/how-tos/backup-with-restic/

I think decentralized storage + Blobbackup could make for an interesting pairing. I'll make time to look into it.

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

#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.

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