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What's my best bet for cost-effective and convenient external local storage? I have a ton of photos and large videos which are consuming tens of GBs on my main computer's hard drive. Just get a cheap thumb flash drive?
What's my best bet for cost-effective and convenient external local storage? I have a ton of photos and large videos which are consuming tens of GBs on my main computer's hard drive. Just get a cheap thumb flash drive?
Yeah I have 3.5TB of photos. Backing them up redundantly is a bit of a pain but just a few external drives will do it, though requires manual syncing
Also...holy shit, I haven't kept up on how precipitously prices for storage have dropped. Just saw a 10 TB external drive for only $150!
What's my best bet for cost-effective and convenient external local storage? I have a ton of photos and large videos which are consuming tens of GBs on my main computer's hard drive. Just get a cheap thumb flash drive?
What's my best bet for cost-effective and convenient external local storage? I have a ton of photos and large videos which are consuming tens of GBs on my main computer's hard drive. Just get a cheap thumb flash drive?
I have a synology single HDD NAS, which syncs to cloud. Its kinda slow but handy.
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> 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…
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It supports append only(which is a MUST for backup software) and is declarative.
restic has supported append-only repositories since before rustic was a thing.
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What plan are you using? Their website suggests that their plans for a single user costs are ~$6-$10 a month. https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/pricing It's still a pretty good deal though...
It says it can backup my PC but then says it needs windows? I can’t see a “personal” option for other OSes on a PC
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What plan are you using? Their website suggests that their plans for a single user costs are ~$6-$10 a month. https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/pricing It's still a pretty good deal though...
It says it can backup my PC but then says it needs windows? I can’t see a “personal” option for other OSes on a PC
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…
Is their any difference in storing to B2 via Restic or Duplicity vs BackBlaze Computer Backup? Do you have access to your file via mobile access, sharing feature, etc.? https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup
With their personal computer backup offering, there’s a web interface that you can use to download individual files from your backups, share files, or even have them mail you a flash drive containing your full backups.
I really wished Backblaze B2 worked better to be a real alternative to S3. The pricing is a middle finger to AWS and other providers. However, we were having 1 outage per month with B2, and in the middle of 2023 we decided to go back to AWS and only use S3 for replication. We still monitor both services simultaneously (S3 and B2), and every other month we are still having an episode where the latency rises from 15ms…
It has been a while since I looked but CFs R2 was cheaper than s3 the last I looked, never used it though.