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I'm mostly just evaluating it for personal/hobby backups (few terabytes), I know business will for sure look at it differently.

• lucb1e 8y ago
  Same here. As a company you can go "we need this to save our asses, I don't care if it costs $50k in a 4 person company", but personally I kind of do care about the cost for retrieval... I've been comparing cloud storage prices to hard drive prices for years now. My first thought when seeing the storage prices was "huh, that might actually be worth it", but depending on the retrieval costs, you might still want to roll your own no matter the storage costs. For private use, I am (was?) planning a variant of this as soon as I am finished doing a server migration: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/7rjcdn/home_made_non_gmo_cruelty_free_offsite_backup/ https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/7rjcdn/home_ma...
  • z3t4 8y ago
    Also compare with ftp and storage vps. Cheapest ive seen is 1$ per TB /month.
    • icebraining 8y ago
      A cheap storage VPS won't give you 11 9s of durability, though. Chances are a single drive failure will cause data loss.
      • z3t4 8y ago
        You can hash the data at regular intervals to make sure it's intact. For example adding this command to crontab: /usr/bin/md5sum --quiet -c md5sum.chk
      • lucb1e 8y ago
        It's your backup, not your primary system. The odds that more than one drive fails within the same, say, week, is probably perfectly acceptable for most people.