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I've looked into Borg/Attic as well. My main hang-up is where to put the repository and what my long-term storage costs would be. Right now I have somewhere i

by tristor 10y ago

I've looked into Borg/Attic as well. My main hang-up is where to put the repository and what my long-term storage costs would be. Right now I have somewhere in the neighborhood of a terabyte of stuff backed up (mostly my Lightroom catalog). I need to be able to generate and access these backups from anywhere in the works reliably. I think Borg would be a great solution for my use at home where I have a NAS on my LAN to provide local storage for the repository. But while traveling the world with my MacBook it doesn't cut it. Arq looks good from that angle but I think would quickly cause my costs to overrun me. Having good backups is what gives me the confidence as a photographer to overcome my inner pack rat. Without good backups I'd never be able to ruthlessly delete images from my collection that don't exceed "okay" into "great". But because I know my images are backed up effectively forever I can really be honest in my art.

lobster_johnson 10y ago
Arq can write to Amazon Cloud Drive, which has unlimited storage for $5/mo. I personally use Arq against Google Cloud Storage. I have around 1TB, and I use it to back up several external drives in addition to my MacBook. (Arq is nice in that it backs up the drive if it's connected, but won't prune olds backups if it's not, unlike services such as Backblaze.) I think I pay around $6-7/mo. I use a coldline bucket, which is the cheapest kind of bucket. Restoring is super fast (unlike Amazon Glacier, which I used previously) and not too expensive.
- Karunamon 10y ago
  Correction: "Unlimited" storage. Chances are high that you'll find yourself getting nasty emails (or worse) if you actually try to put a significant quantity of data up there. I wouldn't risk my amazon account on it, personally.
  - lobster_johnson 10y ago
    Amazon does aggressively monitor and shut down accounts that store pirated content, but I've yet to hear any reports of Amazon cracking down on the amount of storage used. There are plenty of people who are storing absurd amounts of data [1]. If Amazon were cracking down on this, you'd hear it in /r/DataHoarder first. The ToS [2] don't mention any size limitations. In fact, it says you can store pretty much any file as long as the data doesn't violate any laws, including copyright. The only really worrying part is this: 3.2 Usage Restrictions and Limits. The Services are offered in the United States. We may restrict access from other locations. There may be limits on the types of content you can store and share using the Services, such as file types we do not support, and on the number or type of devices you can use to access the Services. We may impose other restrictions on use of the Services. [1] E.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/54bci8/anyone_got_the_limit_of_amazon_cloud_drive/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/54bci8/anyone_..., https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/3zhowv/amazon_unlimited_cloud_how_much_data_are_you/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/3zhowv/amazon_... [2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=201376540 https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId...
    - hvidgaard 10y ago
      I think Amazon drive is Amazons way to utilize unused storage and old storage capacity from S3.

by tristor 10y ago

lobster_johnson 10y ago

Arq can write to Amazon Cloud Drive, which has unlimited storage for $5/mo. I personally use Arq against Google Cloud Storage. I have around 1TB, and I use it to back up several external drives in addition to my MacBook. (Arq is nice in that it backs up the drive if it's connected, but won't prune olds backups if it's not, unlike services such as Backblaze.) I think I pay around $6-7/mo. I use a coldline bucket, which is the cheapest kind of bucket. Restoring is super fast (unlike Amazon Glacier, which I used previously) and not too expensive.

Karunamon 10y ago
Correction: "Unlimited" storage. Chances are high that you'll find yourself getting nasty emails (or worse) if you actually try to put a significant quantity of data up there. I wouldn't risk my amazon account on it, personally.
- lobster_johnson 10y ago
  Amazon does aggressively monitor and shut down accounts that store pirated content, but I've yet to hear any reports of Amazon cracking down on the amount of storage used. There are plenty of people who are storing absurd amounts of data [1]. If Amazon were cracking down on this, you'd hear it in /r/DataHoarder first. The ToS [2] don't mention any size limitations. In fact, it says you can store pretty much any file as long as the data doesn't violate any laws, including copyright. The only really worrying part is this: 3.2 Usage Restrictions and Limits. The Services are offered in the United States. We may restrict access from other locations. There may be limits on the types of content you can store and share using the Services, such as file types we do not support, and on the number or type of devices you can use to access the Services. We may impose other restrictions on use of the Services. [1] E.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/54bci8/anyone_got_the_limit_of_amazon_cloud_drive/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/54bci8/anyone_..., https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/3zhowv/amazon_unlimited_cloud_how_much_data_are_you/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/3zhowv/amazon_... [2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=201376540 https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId...
  - hvidgaard 10y ago
    I think Amazon drive is Amazons way to utilize unused storage and old storage capacity from S3.