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I highly recommend Tarsnap [1] for your off-site backups. It has a tool that does pre-encryption with user-controlled keys, deduplication, and a reasonable pric

I highly recommend Tarsnap [1] for your off-site backups. It has a tool that does pre-encryption with user-controlled keys, deduplication, and a reasonable price; for your use case, about $1500 a month, though more in the first month for bandwidth. I've used them for years. 1: https://www.tarsnap.com/ https://www.tarsnap.com/

martinald 3y ago
1500/month is a reasonable price for 6TB of personal data? Not sure I'd agree with that.
- TimTheTinker 3y ago
  They deduplicate and compress before storing, so it may end up only taking 1.5TB. Still, that's $375/month. Nothing to shake a stick at. I think the intended use case of tarsnap is for <100 GB raw data that is really important to you, for which you must have an offsite backup that is (according to them) insanely backed up and safe. I could see myself using them for a curated folder of personal documents I can't afford to lose in the event of a house fire. Then again, I could probably fit all my most important documents into my 1Password vault.
  - f3d46600-b66e 3y ago
    If it's encrypted, it's not deduplicable and not compressable
    - pushedx 3y ago
      from my understanding of the tarsnap client, it performs the deduplication then encryption locally to achieve high compression. still the cost is too high for my exact use case.
  - mlfreeman 3y ago
    At $375 a month you could buy a new drive and have yet another copy every month.
- sammyteee 3y ago
  Seems like extortion IMO - surely a VM could be spun up in any Cloud service for a fraction of the cost?
beeboobaa3 3y ago
18k a year is not reasonable for personal backups.
dewey 3y ago
Only if you have a sysadmin in your family who would be able to access it if something bad happens to you though.
qntty 3y ago
Tarsnap is an order of magnitude more expensive than S3 standard, two orders of magnitude more expensive than S3 Glacier. It's great for secure backups on the order of kilobytes or megabytes (I use it), but not for this.
f3d46600-b66e 3y ago
1.5k per month is more than 23tb of hard drives for 10 years ....
bombcar 3y ago
$1500 a month is four or five 18 TB drives every single month. You could just make four copies of all your data every month, and throw hard drives in all directions.
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martinald 3y ago

1500/month is a reasonable price for 6TB of personal data? Not sure I'd agree with that.

TimTheTinker 3y ago
They deduplicate and compress before storing, so it may end up only taking 1.5TB. Still, that's $375/month. Nothing to shake a stick at. I think the intended use case of tarsnap is for <100 GB raw data that is really important to you, for which you must have an offsite backup that is (according to them) insanely backed up and safe. I could see myself using them for a curated folder of personal documents I can't afford to lose in the event of a house fire. Then again, I could probably fit all my most important documents into my 1Password vault.
- f3d46600-b66e 3y ago
  If it's encrypted, it's not deduplicable and not compressable
  - pushedx 3y ago
    from my understanding of the tarsnap client, it performs the deduplication then encryption locally to achieve high compression. still the cost is too high for my exact use case.
- mlfreeman 3y ago
  At $375 a month you could buy a new drive and have yet another copy every month.
sammyteee 3y ago
Seems like extortion IMO - surely a VM could be spun up in any Cloud service for a fraction of the cost?

beeboobaa3 3y ago

18k a year is not reasonable for personal backups.

dewey 3y ago

Only if you have a sysadmin in your family who would be able to access it if something bad happens to you though.

qntty 3y ago

Tarsnap is an order of magnitude more expensive than S3 standard, two orders of magnitude more expensive than S3 Glacier. It's great for secure backups on the order of kilobytes or megabytes (I use it), but not for this.

f3d46600-b66e 3y ago

1.5k per month is more than 23tb of hard drives for 10 years ....

bombcar 3y ago

$1500 a month is four or five 18 TB drives every single month. You could just make four copies of all your data every month, and throw hard drives in all directions.

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