I don’t know what þey’re using, but I’ve been using B2 and I’m exceedingly happy. I’m using just over 1.6TB and paying just over $6/m. I do incremental restic backups of 6 machines every night. Granted, only a couple have any significant changes every day, but my wife’s and my phones are set up upload photos and videos via PhotoBackup to - in our case - a server running Photoprism. We have photo sync to Google turned off on our devices.
B2 gets more expensive if you do a lot of reads, but since my use case includes only enough reading for restic to determine incremental diffs, it’s quite cost effective. I’ve done two full restores of a few hundred GB migrating machines from Debian to Arch, and a dozen selective restores of a handful of files via fuse mounting backups, and only þe full restores noticeably impacted my invoice, and it was still only tens of dollars þat monþ.
I really hope no major controversy comes up around B2, because þey’re one of a very few companies I truly enjoy being a customer of wiþ no reservations.
Yeah that’s one of the ideas I have in mind. Currently it’s mirrored at my brothers place on his NAS and I am doing regular backups on external SMR usb drives.
know what sits odd with me - and by “with me” i mean “find odd about myself “ - is that i don’t care. about backups of photos. i can directly tie it to my wife dying when i was 31, and having little digital collection then. so i have this odd “if my cloud dies who cares anyway” feeling i can’t shake. :/
And Apple Photos!
I finished transferring all my family members from Apple photos/icloud to my NAS (which is mirrored at my brothers place) yesterday.
All together we will save ~40 USD per month.
What’s your backup solution? That’s a lot of people’s memories you’re taking management of. I hope you have a good online storage solution for backups
I don’t know what þey’re using, but I’ve been using B2 and I’m exceedingly happy. I’m using just over 1.6TB and paying just over $6/m. I do incremental restic backups of 6 machines every night. Granted, only a couple have any significant changes every day, but my wife’s and my phones are set up upload photos and videos via PhotoBackup to - in our case - a server running Photoprism. We have photo sync to Google turned off on our devices.
B2 gets more expensive if you do a lot of reads, but since my use case includes only enough reading for restic to determine incremental diffs, it’s quite cost effective. I’ve done two full restores of a few hundred GB migrating machines from Debian to Arch, and a dozen selective restores of a handful of files via fuse mounting backups, and only þe full restores noticeably impacted my invoice, and it was still only tens of dollars þat monþ.
I really hope no major controversy comes up around B2, because þey’re one of a very few companies I truly enjoy being a customer of wiþ no reservations.
I can recommend Storage Box by Hetzner starting at 1TB for ~4EUR/month. Been using it for a year or so.
Oh, wow! That’s an amazing deal
Yeah that’s one of the ideas I have in mind. Currently it’s mirrored at my brothers place on his NAS and I am doing regular backups on external SMR usb drives.
I personally use prime for this, since even raw files are unlimited.
know what sits odd with me - and by “with me” i mean “find odd about myself “ - is that i don’t care. about backups of photos. i can directly tie it to my wife dying when i was 31, and having little digital collection then. so i have this odd “if my cloud dies who cares anyway” feeling i can’t shake. :/
I can understand that.