Quite expensive, but it should only ever be a last resort after your local backups have all failed in some way or another. For $1/mo/TB you purchase the opportunity to pay an exorbitant amount to recover from an otherwise catastrophic situation.
Support for S3 means you can just have minio server somewhere acting as backup storage (and minio is pretty easy to replicate). I have local S3 on my NAS replicated to cheapo OVH serwer for backup
Glacier Deep Archive is the cheapest cloud backup option at $1USD/month/TB.
Google Cloud Store Archive Tier is a tiny bit more.
To quote the old mongodb video: If you don't care about restores, /dev/null is even cheaper, and its webscale.
Both would be pretty expensive to actually restore from, though, IIRC.
Quite expensive, but it should only ever be a last resort after your local backups have all failed in some way or another. For $1/mo/TB you purchase the opportunity to pay an exorbitant amount to recover from an otherwise catastrophic situation.
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Yes, about $90USD per TB.
But I weigh that against data recovery from failed disks and the loss of the data I put in Glacier (family photos/etc). Then its dirt cheap.
Depends how big they are. My high value backups go into S3, R2, and a local x3 disk mirror[1].
My low value backups go into a cheap usb hdd from Best Buy.
1. https://github.com/nathants/mirror
Support for S3 means you can just have minio server somewhere acting as backup storage (and minio is pretty easy to replicate). I have local S3 on my NAS replicated to cheapo OVH serwer for backup