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Get same conclusion for photos. Ended up with Backblaze and Restic. https://www.backblaze.com/ https://www.backblaze.com/ https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/lat

Get same conclusion for photos. Ended up with Backblaze and Restic. https://www.backblaze.com/ https://www.backblaze.com/ https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/010_introduction.html https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/010_introduction.htm... Set and forget. See how AWS S3, Azure, and Google Cloud compare to B2 Cloud Storage. https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html

t0mas88 6y ago
But Backblaze is cheating in how they compare pricing, because they compare to a much more expensive S3 storage class. In the "4TB disk crash" case it's really not as their website describes: AWS: $ 48/year to store, $ 312 to retrieve Backblaze: $ 240/year to store, $ 40 to retrieve If I store it for more than 17 months before the crash, Backblaze is actually more expensive than AWS.
- throwaway888abc 6y ago
  >to get everything back: you can configure your backup to get back only what you actually need (assume it's not all) and save cost Another contender, might work for you https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/#c14-cold-storage https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/#c14-cold-storage C14 Cold Storage Glacier €0.002/GB/month with free bandwidth
- atYevP 6y ago
  Yev here -> the reason we have S3 pricing on our pricing page and not Deep Glacier is because our performance is closer-tied to the S3 service, meaning both Backblaze B2 and S3 are hot storage. Deep Glacier is...well..cool or cold storage in that it takes more time to access your data. You're not wrong, just wanted to give a bit more context on the why!
  - t0mas88 6y ago
    Ok, makes sense. Time to launch a lower cost slow retrieval product? Because for most backups I expect there are a lot of customers that would trade retrieval time for a lower cost per GB.

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Get same conclusion for photos. Ended up with Backblaze and Restic. https://www.backblaze.com/ https://www.backblaze.com/ https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/lat

by throwaway888abc 6y ago

t0mas88 6y ago
But Backblaze is cheating in how they compare pricing, because they compare to a much more expensive S3 storage class. In the "4TB disk crash" case it's really not as their website describes: AWS: $ 48/year to store, $ 312 to retrieve Backblaze: $ 240/year to store, $ 40 to retrieve If I store it for more than 17 months before the crash, Backblaze is actually more expensive than AWS.
- throwaway888abc 6y ago
  >to get everything back: you can configure your backup to get back only what you actually need (assume it's not all) and save cost Another contender, might work for you https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/#c14-cold-storage https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/#c14-cold-storage C14 Cold Storage Glacier €0.002/GB/month with free bandwidth
- atYevP 6y ago
  Yev here -> the reason we have S3 pricing on our pricing page and not Deep Glacier is because our performance is closer-tied to the S3 service, meaning both Backblaze B2 and S3 are hot storage. Deep Glacier is...well..cool or cold storage in that it takes more time to access your data. You're not wrong, just wanted to give a bit more context on the why!
  - t0mas88 6y ago
    Ok, makes sense. Time to launch a lower cost slow retrieval product? Because for most backups I expect there are a lot of customers that would trade retrieval time for a lower cost per GB.