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Does anyone have any opinions and experience using backblaze as a personal only cloud storage and offsite backup for smaller amounts of data (under 30 TB)

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clSTophEjUdRanu 7y ago
+1 I have the same question and would like to read replies.
dwohnitmok 7y ago
I use Backblaze's B2 service for both backup (via restic) and archival storage (via git-annex). I only maintain a distinction between the two in case I ever want to move to another service, and also because git-annex and restic have different strengths that make them more or less suitable for unchanging archives and often changing backups respectively. Between the two I have about 1 TB stored with them. I have yet needed to do a full restore, but I do partial restores from time to time to double-check my backup procedures and every time it's done what I wanted. My monthly costs are usually a bit under $5. Note I essentially never use B2's API directly, and only use it as a backend through wrappers others have written, so I have no real experience with how good its API is. One of the few times I did try the API, I remember at one point I think I was getting Java exceptions back in the error messages, which was mildly concerning from a hygiene perspective and made for rather terrible error messages, but no sensitive data was being emitted. I also think that's been fixed. The bottom line is that B2 has worked fine for me and at a good price point.
newscracker 7y ago
> for smaller amounts of data (under 30 TB) Did you mean to say 30 GB or 30 TB? Calling 30 TB as "smaller amount" seems weird to me in 2020, especially for personal data. Perhaps it would be the norm in a couple of decades. :) FWIW, I have way under 1 TB of personal data to backup to different locations, and I consider that to be relatively large.
- throwaway17_17 7y ago
  I did mean 30 TB, I have approximately 12 TB of data currently between all of my storage for video, audio, books, and games. However, I have been avoiding doing a lot of conversions to digital media from my physical collections because I'm just unsure of running a full blown archival server at home. I would estimate if I converted my entire video library to 4k it would put me somewhere over 10 additional TB. My comic books/manga and graphic novels, upgraded to archival resolution would probably run over 10 TB as well. Then there is the soon to be required ripping of PS2/PS3/WIIU roms when those hardware units become less reliable for actual playing. So I think that 30 TB of storage would do for the time being for me, but I think I will eventually need more than that. TL;DR I am a digital horder, so I've convinced myself I do in fact need 30+ TB of storage.
tshannon 7y ago
Yeah I use B2 with rclone (https://rclone.org/ https://rclone.org/) and it works great.

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clSTophEjUdRanu 7y ago

+1 I have the same question and would like to read replies.

dwohnitmok 7y ago

I use Backblaze's B2 service for both backup (via restic) and archival storage (via git-annex). I only maintain a distinction between the two in case I ever want to move to another service, and also because git-annex and restic have different strengths that make them more or less suitable for unchanging archives and often changing backups respectively. Between the two I have about 1 TB stored with them. I have yet needed to do a full restore, but I do partial restores from time to time to double-check my backup procedures and every time it's done what I wanted. My monthly costs are usually a bit under $5. Note I essentially never use B2's API directly, and only use it as a backend through wrappers others have written, so I have no real experience with how good its API is. One of the few times I did try the API, I remember at one point I think I was getting Java exceptions back in the error messages, which was mildly concerning from a hygiene perspective and made for rather terrible error messages, but no sensitive data was being emitted. I also think that's been fixed. The bottom line is that B2 has worked fine for me and at a good price point.

newscracker 7y ago

> for smaller amounts of data (under 30 TB) Did you mean to say 30 GB or 30 TB? Calling 30 TB as "smaller amount" seems weird to me in 2020, especially for personal data. Perhaps it would be the norm in a couple of decades. :) FWIW, I have way under 1 TB of personal data to backup to different locations, and I consider that to be relatively large.

throwaway17_17 7y ago
I did mean 30 TB, I have approximately 12 TB of data currently between all of my storage for video, audio, books, and games. However, I have been avoiding doing a lot of conversions to digital media from my physical collections because I'm just unsure of running a full blown archival server at home. I would estimate if I converted my entire video library to 4k it would put me somewhere over 10 additional TB. My comic books/manga and graphic novels, upgraded to archival resolution would probably run over 10 TB as well. Then there is the soon to be required ripping of PS2/PS3/WIIU roms when those hardware units become less reliable for actual playing. So I think that 30 TB of storage would do for the time being for me, but I think I will eventually need more than that. TL;DR I am a digital horder, so I've convinced myself I do in fact need 30+ TB of storage.

tshannon 7y ago

Yeah I use B2 with rclone (https://rclone.org/ https://rclone.org/) and it works great.