Comment by snowe2010

2 months ago

Backblaze doesn’t erase after 30 days… I’ve had a computer be offline from it for several months and it still retained all data. And you can use the backblaze docker container to run on a NAS, much much much cheaper than B2.

Wasabi is much cheaper than AWS as well.

Finally the best solution for backing up your iCloud Photos is definitely Immich. Set it up on your own NAS or a VPS, back up to that, and then back up that server to an S3 storage using rsync or restic. I’ll note that I still backup to Backblaze because its so dang cheap.

I spent months trying to find the best setup a few months ago and this is by far the cheapest.

But still, this shouldn’t be required for normal people. They should get what they pay for.

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raw_anon_1111  2 months ago

> It has to phone home every 30 days or it will erase anything that is stored on an external drive

It’s actually more nuanced. It will back up files on a USB attached drive. If it doesn’t see the drive attached for 30 days, it will erase the backup.

If you have your computer off for more than 30 days and you bring your computer back on and the USB drive isn’t attached when it connects to BackBlaze, it will erase it.

Yeah I’m not going to trust my storage to Wasabi.

AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive is $1 a month.

  • snowe2010  2 months ago

    > AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive is $1 a month.

    Only if you’re backing up nothing and using non-encrypted files and making sure you don’t delete anything (rsync with delete turned off). I tested this not even three months ago. I hit $30 with only 3 tb of data with deep archive while wasabi AND backblaze cost less than that. No need to even trust a single provider. If you’re never changing your files AND you don’t care about encrypting them then yes GDA is fine and pretty cheap. Otherwise wasabi and backblaze get more done for less cost.