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ZFS backup is the attractive part of this service. But that’s $60/month for 5TB. It’s quite expensive, even accounting for a $5/month full time VPS (enough RAM

by aborsy 4y ago

ZFS backup is the attractive part of this service. But that’s $60/month for 5TB. It’s quite expensive, even accounting for a $5/month full time VPS (enough RAM and CPU for ZFS receive). The ZFS offering was better until recently where the minimum storage was substantially increased. On the other hand, for non-ZFS backups, there is Backblaze and other cheap storage. It’s hard to make sense of rsync.net these days.

unilynx 4y ago
Always read the small print on these cheap providers, check for outbound data limits or minimum retention times Also rsync has a cheaper plan if you eg only need a borg remote. We use them and borgbase.
- prirun 4y ago
  I agree, for things like Google Drive, OneDrive, etc. Usually if the service is a flat rate and/or unlimited, there are gonna be issues around performance, both upload and download. Rather than impose hard data size limits, these services usually make upload and/or download so painful at higher sizes that they become unusable or infeasible. There are many services these days that have minimum retention times, including the cheaper tiers of S3 and GCS. Backblaze doesn't throttle, has no minimum retention times, no minimum object size, and is 0.5 cents/GB/mo for storage and 1 cent/GB/mo for downloads with a 10GB free monthly storage allowance (without registering a CC) and a free 1 GB/day download allowance. Not associated with BB other than through HashBackup (I'm the author). Many of HB's large customers successfully use BackBlaze for their offsite backups. It's rock solid if you strictly follow their API guidelines, esp related to error handling.
rsync 4y ago
"It’s hard to make sense of rsync.net these days." We updated our pricing this past year and are, I believe, price-competitive with Wasabi and B2 for large datasets[1]. For medium sized datasets there is a premium that might pencil out given the free usage/bandwidth/transfer. For smaller accounts there is a premium and in return for that premium you get actual person to person support from real UNIX engineers as well as a simple platform "that just works". It's not for everybody. That's just fine. [1] https://rsync.net/pricing.html https://rsync.net/pricing.html

by aborsy 4y ago

unilynx 4y ago

Always read the small print on these cheap providers, check for outbound data limits or minimum retention times Also rsync has a cheaper plan if you eg only need a borg remote. We use them and borgbase.

prirun 4y ago
I agree, for things like Google Drive, OneDrive, etc. Usually if the service is a flat rate and/or unlimited, there are gonna be issues around performance, both upload and download. Rather than impose hard data size limits, these services usually make upload and/or download so painful at higher sizes that they become unusable or infeasible. There are many services these days that have minimum retention times, including the cheaper tiers of S3 and GCS. Backblaze doesn't throttle, has no minimum retention times, no minimum object size, and is 0.5 cents/GB/mo for storage and 1 cent/GB/mo for downloads with a 10GB free monthly storage allowance (without registering a CC) and a free 1 GB/day download allowance. Not associated with BB other than through HashBackup (I'm the author). Many of HB's large customers successfully use BackBlaze for their offsite backups. It's rock solid if you strictly follow their API guidelines, esp related to error handling.

rsync 4y ago

"It’s hard to make sense of rsync.net these days." We updated our pricing this past year and are, I believe, price-competitive with Wasabi and B2 for large datasets[1]. For medium sized datasets there is a premium that might pencil out given the free usage/bandwidth/transfer. For smaller accounts there is a premium and in return for that premium you get actual person to person support from real UNIX engineers as well as a simple platform "that just works". It's not for everybody. That's just fine. [1] https://rsync.net/pricing.html https://rsync.net/pricing.html