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| ▲ | Terr_ a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | Dylan16807 20 hours ago | parent [-] | | > 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. |
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| ▲ | ggm a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| tell me about this $2/week filestore option. I'm interested. |
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| ▲ | 867-5309 a day ago | parent [-] | | continuing the bizarre trend, I'm here for the $2/day deal | | |
| ▲ | bigstrat2003 a day ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | topato a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'D love to be paying $2/minute! |
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| ▲ | PunchyHamster a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Backblaze B2 is $6TB/mo, so if you have around 300GB... stuff like restic or kopia backups nicely to it |
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| ▲ | Terr_ a day ago | parent | next [-] | | 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... | |
| ▲ | markhahn a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | $72/yr is somewhere around 3x purchase price (per year). BB seems to be pretty smart about managing their exposure, infrastructure overhead, etc. |
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