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Rclone raspberry pi b2 backblaze1/11/2024 ![]() That’s another strike against Backblaze backups (not B2 based backups). Everything that I would care about - source code, photos, documents etc are stored other places. Data transfer does cost more but if I had that type of catastrophe, worrying about getting my movies back for my Plex server would be of little concern. My offsite backup would only be accessed in the case of catastrophic failure - my primary and local backup data is unavailable. ![]() I’ve only used it as part of a lifecycle policy where objects were stored in S3 and then using the console to have AWS migrate data after a certain amount of time. Honestly, I’ve never used the Glacier api directly. If you go to other providers like Packet, OVH or Amazon, you're going to see way higher prices - I'm don't have too many requirements so Hetzner worked for me. Now I have a ~6 Core (12 vCore/hyper-thread) 24GB RAM monster that I can run experiments with for a decent monthly price. I wrote about the revelation here (including link to HN thread where it happened). Hetzner also has a cloud offering that is also pretty great - slight limits on operating system choice and some other features and you can have very competitively priced machines in a more cloud-friendly fire-up-and-go format. I first found INIZ ( ) and was super happy with them, then someone introduced me to Hetzner Robot Marketplace and I was blown away by the affordable prices (+/- setup fee) and have had one ever since. I also felt like most VPS providers charged too much (especially true in the case of AWS - $10/mo for a t2.micro is ridiculous). I had previously thought that dedicated servers were doomed to be too expensive/heavy weight for me. Tl dr - Shifted my knowledge of the hosting market by exposing me to cheap dedicated servers ![]() Although if they survive, given its price, I'm sure apps will happen at some point. It has no desktop or mobile apps currently. That said the service doesn't have polished apps available, being a platform like S3. Is it the same with B2?ī2 has folders, you can navigate them in the online interface. > I have some experience with AWS/Azure and both of them do not support folders, and the workaround is to have slashes in the filename to create a virtual directory. The idea with backups is that if you have data you care about, then it's a good idea to have at least 2 backups in different locations, made via different software. ![]() I also have an offline backup on a portable hard drive. My archive is currently less than 150 GB, so B2 is really cheap. As has been said before, solutions like Dropbox are not reliable for doing backups without specialized software like Rclone or Arq Backup, that can keep a version history. But they only provide the history of changes for 1 month, or 3 months for Pro. I keep my photos on Dropbox too, which is how I share them with family, besides sending files over WhatsApp, which is popular these days. I'm only using B2 for backup and it's doing a fine job, since from what I understand it also does unlimited history of the files, so in case files get corrupted, theoretically I still have previous versions around. Not secret, but private and there is a difference. That said I still expect Backblaze or Dropbox to keep my data private. Photos are not worth encrypting anyway, since a lot of them end up being shared on Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, etc, as photos are meant to be shared, at least with your family. if the data should be discovered by my family in case I'm not around, then I won't encrypt it. Not sure if it was the software's fault or the storage. I'm backing up important work stuff with Arq Backup for example and I've had my archive corrupted once. Another reason is that in my experience encrypted data is more sensitive to bit rot and bugs than unencrypted data. In case something happens to me, I want the technical barrier to be low enough for my family to discover the backup. But I'm not encrypting the files.Įncryption raises the barrier for both third-parties and family. I'm also backing up my photo archive on B2 via rclone and it works great, it costs like $1 for 200 GB which is awesome.
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