I went the "DIY" Arq/AWS Glacier Deep Archive route for personal backups. I have roughly 2-3TB of storage and pay about $5/month for it (I think a bit of that c

I went the "DIY" Arq/AWS Glacier Deep Archive route for personal backups. I have roughly 2-3TB of storage and pay about $5/month for it (I think a bit of that cost is just uploads of new backup data and that all churns through normal S3 until the lifecycle marks the files as Deep Archive later). BackBlaze's backup option looks a whole lot more elegant and would absolutely be a lot cheaper for restores. The small price raise seems like a good business strategy from their side - I'm just here to remind people the "DIY" backups pathway isn't that much more inexpensive. I just stick with my "DIY" path because I'm mostly backing up my external time machine and media disks, and enjoy having full control over the encryption keys.