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I've been using restic with the Backblaze B2 backend for a home server backup, which seems to be as close as Backblaze will ever get to having a Linux client.

I've been using restic with the Backblaze B2 backend for a home server backup, which seems to be as close as Backblaze will ever get to having a Linux client. My rough numbers are 450GB stored monthly, 4GB downloaded monthly, 90k stored files, 385,000 individual transactions, which ends up costing about $2.25 in storage fees, $0.25 for transactions, and $0.10 for download bandwidth.

cdumler 7y ago
I will at my two cents: I've been very happily using Restic and B2 for a long time. It's cheaper than the unlimited service given I have ~600GB stored. Plus, it's a "real" backup: on-going series of snapshots, older files are not replaced when a new back up is made, I can restore from as many points in time that I want to store, and I don't have to worry about Backblaze deleting anything due to inactivity. One underrated feature of Restic is tagging, which lets you identify a collection of snapshots. I can point multiple separate backups and devices to the same repository tracked with tags; thus, I de-dupe across all of them.
edjroot 7y ago
Thanks so much for the tip! You've probably saved future me from data-loss-induced hair loss. I just followed their 1-minute setup guide to back up all my data and everything worked perfectly on first try, something that has never happened in my previous attempts with other solutions. I'm going to sound like a shill here, but I'm already a fan! If it keeps working this well, I'll gladly become a paying customer, something I very rarely do.
favorited 7y ago
One thing that has been keeping from backing up more content to B2 has been finding an appropriate encryption strategy, and it looks like Restic manages encryption the remote backup repository automatically? If I'm reading this correctly, Restic + B2 sounds like an absolutely godsend!
- seanlane 7y ago
  That's correct, restic operates under the assumption that you cannot trust where it's storing the data. Some more (informal) analysis on restic's crypto was done here: https://blog.filippo.io/restic-cryptography/ https://blog.filippo.io/restic-cryptography/

cdumler 7y ago

I will at my two cents: I've been very happily using Restic and B2 for a long time. It's cheaper than the unlimited service given I have ~600GB stored. Plus, it's a "real" backup: on-going series of snapshots, older files are not replaced when a new back up is made, I can restore from as many points in time that I want to store, and I don't have to worry about Backblaze deleting anything due to inactivity. One underrated feature of Restic is tagging, which lets you identify a collection of snapshots. I can point multiple separate backups and devices to the same repository tracked with tags; thus, I de-dupe across all of them.

edjroot 7y ago

Thanks so much for the tip! You've probably saved future me from data-loss-induced hair loss. I just followed their 1-minute setup guide to back up all my data and everything worked perfectly on first try, something that has never happened in my previous attempts with other solutions. I'm going to sound like a shill here, but I'm already a fan! If it keeps working this well, I'll gladly become a paying customer, something I very rarely do.

favorited 7y ago

One thing that has been keeping from backing up more content to B2 has been finding an appropriate encryption strategy, and it looks like Restic manages encryption the remote backup repository automatically? If I'm reading this correctly, Restic + B2 sounds like an absolutely godsend!

seanlane 7y ago
That's correct, restic operates under the assumption that you cannot trust where it's storing the data. Some more (informal) analysis on restic's crypto was done here: https://blog.filippo.io/restic-cryptography/ https://blog.filippo.io/restic-cryptography/