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I use Backblaze B2 for my music backups. It costs a bit to restore the files from there, but just storing them is cheap enough for me to not care.
by pimeys 4y ago
I use Backblaze B2 for my music backups. It costs a bit to restore the files from there, but just storing them is cheap enough for me to not care.
- blahyawnblah 4y agoWhen did they start charging for restoration? Are you doing something other than just downloading it?
- DistractionRect 4y agoSince always. For clarity, they are using the commercial offering from backblaze, not backblaze's personal/home use product. B2 is similar to s3, and B2 charges for api calls + egress. Ingress is free, and they have a generous free daily api calling limit that covers some of the core api
- josephcsible 4y agoIt looks like downloading is free with their personal backup service, but is $0.01/GB with their B2 cloud storage service.
- mikequinlan 4y agoBackblaze B2 is different than Backblaze Backup.
- encryptluks2 4y agoBackblaze B2 makes sense for large libraries over a few TB, but for 2TB... even Google One with 2TB of storage for Google Drive outcompetes them on pricing. For $99/yr of 2TB of storage, you end up saving $140 per year over Backblaze B2 and rclone is an amazing third-party client, or if you prefer regular snapshot backups then you can use restic.