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Thanks I'll take a look. Honest question, if you're not backing up more than 50GB of data, why not just use Backblaze B2 w/ another front-end GUI like ARQ or Cl
by atYevP 9y ago
Thanks I'll take a look. Honest question, if you're not backing up more than 50GB of data, why not just use Backblaze B2 w/ another front-end GUI like ARQ or Cloudberry or Hashbackup? You'd be paying $0.25/month for the storage, much less than with our Computer Backup service, and you can make life-cycle rules that would keep versions for as long as you'd like.
- balladeer 9y agoBecause I want one service that has everything built in. Like CrashPlan backup app, or your computer backup app. I have mentioned this in my comment. I understand the price difference but I want the ease, peace etc, not something where I need to hook two or few things together.
- atYevP 9y agoUnderstood! Thank you for the additional color!
- eltoozero 9y agoI would rather see them leverage/contribute to existing cross-platform client-side backup software like ZManda[0] making the improvements needed to either make it work directly with B2 or integrate with Amanda. Keep your focus on the storage angle, there are ways to accomplish this, I use a "glue box" (Synology NAS) to collect the data and fire it off to B2, could easily be a linux machine running b2 cli tools[1]. [0]: https://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Zmanda_Windows_Client https://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Zmanda_Windows_Client [1]: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/quick_command_line.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/quick_command_line.html
- pnutjam 9y agoI run a personal home server that acts as my cloud / NAS. I personally think RAID is overkill for most home users. Instead, I use my 2nd drive to mirror the data. This saves me from fat finger errors and such. I also use BTRFS so I can take snapshots and provide my own file versioning. For offsite backup, I use a time4vps storage server, but I might transition to B2 in the future. I like what I'm hearing.