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1 year ago

Lots of answers in the comment about this particular storage type/vendor. Regardless, to answer your original question, rclone. Hands down. If you spend 30-60 minutes actually reading their documentation, you are set and understand so much more of what’s going on under the hood.

MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldOP

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1 year ago

Thanks, I do know of rclone and intend to study it. I was just wondering if the likes of borg, duplicati etc could be used.

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1 point

1 year ago

Can’t speak for those but I tried Kopia and it did the job okay. Ultimately tho I landed on rclone.

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1 year ago

Which cloud provider do you use?

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1 year ago

I’m currently using Backblaze. I also researched Wasabi and AWS.

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1 year ago

How much of storage do you use on B2? Does it not feel quite expensive to you? Even Wasabi is quite expensive, although it’s not as bad as AWS.

I was recommended iDrive e2 by another commentor, and now that I look at it, it is likely the best product I have come across other than factoring in reliability. I have never heard of this company before, and considering that this is very important data to me, I’d like to have a reliable company behind it.

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1 year ago

Well here’s my very abbreviated conclusion (provided I remember the details appropriately) when I did the research about 3 months ago.

Wasabi - okay pricing, reliable, s3 compatible, no charges to retrieve my data, pay for 1tb blocks (wasn’t a fan of this one), penalty for data retrieval prior to a “vesting” period (if I remember correctly, you had to leave the data there for 90 days before you could retrieve it at no cost. Also not a big fan of this one)

AWS - I’m very familiar with it due to my job, pricing is largely influenced by access requirements (how often and how fast do I want to retrieve my data), very reliable, s3, charges for everything (list, read, retrieve, etc). This is the real killer and largely unaccounted cost of AWS.

Backblaze - okay pricing, reliable, s3 compliant, free retrieval of data up to the same amount that you store with them (read below), pay by the gig (much more flexible than Wasabi). My heartburn with Backblaze was that retrieval stipulation. However, they have recently increased it to free up to 3x of what you store with them which is super awesome and made my heartburn go away really quickly.

I actually chose Backblaze before the retrieval policy change and it has been rock solid from the start. Works seamlessly with the vast majority of utilities that can leverage s3 compliant storage. Pricing wise, I honestly don’t think it’s that bad

Hope this helps

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