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That's kind of another problem though. No way to predict costs in advance. All you can do is know the upper bound. I have approx 2.5tb on CrashPlan, so that gi
by SimonPStevens 9y ago
That's kind of another problem though. No way to predict costs in advance. All you can do is know the upper bound.
I have approx 2.5tb on CrashPlan, so that gives me an upper bound of $625 per month. Maybe it might be 50% lower when deduped, maybe more, maybe less. Who knows. Not really a pricing model I can make a decision on.
Tarsnap looks great for certain use cases. But it doesn't really make sense for home users with a large amount of data.
- X86BSD 9y agoYou can do a dry run with Tarsnap to see how much it would transfer and how much it would deduplicate before ever running for Realz(tm). Using the --dry-run flag.
- munchhausen 9y agoThe Tarsnap client has a "dry-run" mode, which will dedup your data and tell you how much GB will it take up. Based on that, you can then make a calculation of how much will it cost.
- SimonPStevens 9y agoDidn't know this. Thanks. I might give it a look as I'm being forced to switch provider anyway.