This is why I would rather pay someone a couple of dollars per year to handle all this for me. If need be pay two providers to have a backup.
This is why I would rather pay someone a couple of dollars per year to handle all this for me. If need be pay two providers to have a backup.
Who do you pay for this? (To rephrase : which cloud storage vendors do you use?) interested in the $2/month price point :)
I assume "couple of" was figurative, to indicate the cost is substantially less than managing your own bank of SSDs and ensuring it is periodically powered etc.
[Edit: LOL, I see someone else posted literally the same example within the same minute. Funny coincidences.]
That said, they could also be storing relatively small amounts. For example, I back up to Backblaze B2, advertised at $6/TB/month, so ~300 MB at rest will be a "couple" bucks.
> managing your own bank of SSDs
If I have enough data to need multiple SSDs (more than 8TB) then the cloud cost is not going to be substantially less. B2 is going to be above $500 a year.
I can manage to plug a backup SSD into a phone charger a couple times a year, or leave it plugged into one when it's not in my computer being updated. Even if I rate that handful of minutes of labor per year at a gratuitous $100, I'm still saving money well before the 18 month mark.
tell me about this $2/week filestore option. I'm interested.
continuing the bizarre trend, I'm here for the $2/day deal
That would be Tarsnap. Cool product and the owner is a good dude, but good Lord is it expensive. I would love to support him but just can't afford it.
I'D love to be paying $2/minute!
Backblaze B2 is $6TB/mo, so if you have around 300GB... stuff like restic or kopia backups nicely to it
Recently started fiddling with restic and B2, it worked fairly seamlessly once I stopped trying too hard being fancy with permissions and capabilities (cap_dac_read_search). There were some conflicts trying to have both "the way that works interactively" [0] versus "the way that works well with systemd". [AmbientCapabilities=]
One concern I have is B2's downloading costs means verifying remote snapshots could get expensive. I suppose I could use `restic check --read-data-subset X` to do a random spot-check of smaller portions of the data, but I'm not sure how valuable that would be.
I like how it resembles LUKS encryption, where I can have one key for the automated backup process, and a separate memorize-only passphrase for if things go Very Very Wrong.
[0] https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/080_examples.html#ba...
$72/yr is somewhere around 3x purchase price (per year). BB seems to be pretty smart about managing their exposure, infrastructure overhead, etc.
Do we actually know the clouds will do this? S3 is just about coming to its 20th anniversary.
Long enough to experience data rot to a small degree but realistically what proportion of users have archived things away for 10+ years then audited the fidelity of their data on retrieval after fetching it from Glacier