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Cool! I'm using them to store my Time Machine backups from my Synology. The first month I burned through about 3TB of my 1TB with comcast, but that's the only m
by rconti 9y ago
Cool! I'm using them to store my Time Machine backups from my Synology. The first month I burned through about 3TB of my 1TB with comcast, but that's the only month I went over my 'cap' (they have 2 months' grace period).
The only problem I have is that my Time Machine backups change too much -- for, say, 400MB of data being backed up in time machine, it seems like the deltas (and what is synced to backblaze) is something like 4GB. I'm using the CloudSync functionality from Synology -- I think the issue is with Time Machine, not with CloudSync, though.
What this means is I'd regularly exceed my data cap if I let me CloudSync run all the time. As a workaround, I've scheduled it to only run between midnight and noon on Mondays, which results in syncing less data (apparently the deltas must contain a lot of duplicate data that doesn't have to be synced up to BackBlaze when I only do it a few times a week).
Of course, now my problem is I'm afraid that I'm risking the integrity of my backups because the schedule might cut off my sync in the middle of a run. Since I leave my home computers off during the day, though, there shouldn't be new deltas occuring as I'm syncing to backblaze, so once it catches up (and 12 hours is enough to catch up), there is no more activity.
- chrisper 9y agoI'd recommend you to look into borg backup for your important data. It has deduplication and such making the deltas rather small.