It might help separating your data into different tiers of "love", and deciding on your backup strategies from there. For example, my irreplaceable photos (pro

It might help separating your data into different tiers of "love", and deciding on your backup strategies from there. For example, my irreplaceable photos (probably around 3TB worth) get packed into year-based TAR files, then uploaded to Glacier Deep Archive. It's only around $3 USD a month. I won't have to care about retrieval cost for the moment, because I think I'll only need to touch it in the event of a catastrophe. Most media files and Linux ISOs don't get backed up at all.