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There's also B2 (https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html), which is I think the cheapest of them all. U

There's also B2 (https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html), which is I think the cheapest of them all. UPDATE: Well, egress is cheaper. B2 is $0.005/GB storage with $0.02/GB egress. But one thing to consider is that B2 storage is located within one single datacenter. (Disclaimer: I am not affiliated, but am in the process of deciding to use B2.)

agopaul 9y ago
I did some research myself to decide which storage solution to use for backups and B2 is the cheapest of all, at least for backups. I hope that Backblaze will also offer some kind of redundance option (replicate customer data in 2+ datacenters).
- copperx 9y ago
  B2 is awesome for when you have a local backup. For example, B2 is ideal to back up a NAS. I wouldn't want to use it for set-and-forget cold storage, because of the single datacenter problem.
minxomat 9y ago
B2 is horribly unstable, has limits left and right and most of all, the latency is horrendous. You will be better off using any standard OpenStack provider. That way you won't have a lock in, and great performance (in my testing). E.g. OpenStack Swift on OVH. Sure it's a tiny bit more expensive. But you get a mature cross-provider API and better performance. Even for huge chunks of cold data, I wouldn't want to use B2.
- raimue 9y ago
  I am uploading encrypted backups from servers to BackBlaze B2 Cloud Storage using duply/duplicity. This works pretty well for me. Latency is not important for this use case and I have not noticed any limits. There were a few upload failures initially, but I just increased the upload retries, which sufficiently remedied this problem. That it works so well for me might be connected to the fact that their own products are backup solutions. In any case, I am now paying a significantly less monthly fee for B2 than on Amazon S3 before and the setup had a much lower complexity.
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- copperx 9y ago
  What are some good OpenStack providers? and are there any that can 11 nines durability?
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  - jzelinskie 9y ago
    I know at least that Rackspace has a hosted Swift storage service. Of the storage integrations I've worked on, Swift was probably the most error-prone to get your integration stable, though. I guess that's just a credit to the robustness of the S3 client APIs and services that copy it (Ceph, GCS).
  - pzduniak 9y ago
    OVH is pretty good and very cheap.
- ernsheong 9y ago
  Thanks for sharing. This is news to me. I haven't ever seen a bad review of B2 over the internets. Can you elaborate further? How stable is Wasabi?
- ernsheong 9y ago
  I took a look at OVH's Object Storage (which you mentioned) https://www.ovh.com/us/public-cloud/storage/object-storage/ https://www.ovh.com/us/public-cloud/storage/object-storage/ It looks really promising, and pricing is very reasonable. Thank you for pointing it out.
bigtunacan 9y ago
How is B2 cheaper at .005/GB than Wasabi at .0039/GB? Am I missing something here?
- ernsheong 9y ago
  Sorry, clarified that only B2 egress is cheaper. Wasabi storage is cheaper at .0039 vs 0.005
agotterer 9y ago
I haven't used B2 in a production setting. But I've been using it for backing up my NAS and have been quite happy. Thinking about switching my other personal machines from crashplan to backblaze.
- SomeHacker44 9y ago
  What are you using for backup? I have Arq (to Google) and Crashplan.
sreitshamer 9y ago
We just added B2 support to Arq Backup. It's been working great for us so far.
- copperx 9y ago
  Any plans to add OneDrive Business? Office365 accounts come with 1TB and most people don't know what to do with it.
- sdwisely 9y ago
  Thanks for Arq, it's a fantastic product. Any chance of an option to migrate from one source to another? In the process of moving from one provider to another and it's pretty tedious getting it all in sync while I manually move from one to the other while still backing up to the previous provider until the move is complete. It's going to be a bit of a process over the next few weeks :(

agopaul 9y ago

I did some research myself to decide which storage solution to use for backups and B2 is the cheapest of all, at least for backups. I hope that Backblaze will also offer some kind of redundance option (replicate customer data in 2+ datacenters).

copperx 9y ago
B2 is awesome for when you have a local backup. For example, B2 is ideal to back up a NAS. I wouldn't want to use it for set-and-forget cold storage, because of the single datacenter problem.

minxomat 9y ago

B2 is horribly unstable, has limits left and right and most of all, the latency is horrendous. You will be better off using any standard OpenStack provider. That way you won't have a lock in, and great performance (in my testing). E.g. OpenStack Swift on OVH. Sure it's a tiny bit more expensive. But you get a mature cross-provider API and better performance. Even for huge chunks of cold data, I wouldn't want to use B2.

raimue 9y ago
I am uploading encrypted backups from servers to BackBlaze B2 Cloud Storage using duply/duplicity. This works pretty well for me. Latency is not important for this use case and I have not noticed any limits. There were a few upload failures initially, but I just increased the upload retries, which sufficiently remedied this problem. That it works so well for me might be connected to the fact that their own products are backup solutions. In any case, I am now paying a significantly less monthly fee for B2 than on Amazon S3 before and the setup had a much lower complexity.
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copperx 9y ago
What are some good OpenStack providers? and are there any that can 11 nines durability?
- deleted 9y ago
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- jzelinskie 9y ago
  I know at least that Rackspace has a hosted Swift storage service. Of the storage integrations I've worked on, Swift was probably the most error-prone to get your integration stable, though. I guess that's just a credit to the robustness of the S3 client APIs and services that copy it (Ceph, GCS).
- pzduniak 9y ago
  OVH is pretty good and very cheap.
ernsheong 9y ago
Thanks for sharing. This is news to me. I haven't ever seen a bad review of B2 over the internets. Can you elaborate further? How stable is Wasabi?
ernsheong 9y ago
I took a look at OVH's Object Storage (which you mentioned) https://www.ovh.com/us/public-cloud/storage/object-storage/ https://www.ovh.com/us/public-cloud/storage/object-storage/ It looks really promising, and pricing is very reasonable. Thank you for pointing it out.

bigtunacan 9y ago

How is B2 cheaper at .005/GB than Wasabi at .0039/GB? Am I missing something here?

ernsheong 9y ago
Sorry, clarified that only B2 egress is cheaper. Wasabi storage is cheaper at .0039 vs 0.005

agotterer 9y ago

I haven't used B2 in a production setting. But I've been using it for backing up my NAS and have been quite happy. Thinking about switching my other personal machines from crashplan to backblaze.

SomeHacker44 9y ago
What are you using for backup? I have Arq (to Google) and Crashplan.

sreitshamer 9y ago

We just added B2 support to Arq Backup. It's been working great for us so far.

copperx 9y ago
Any plans to add OneDrive Business? Office365 accounts come with 1TB and most people don't know what to do with it.
sdwisely 9y ago
Thanks for Arq, it's a fantastic product. Any chance of an option to migrate from one source to another? In the process of moving from one provider to another and it's pretty tedious getting it all in sync while I manually move from one to the other while still backing up to the previous provider until the move is complete. It's going to be a bit of a process over the next few weeks :(