Sorry to spam. I just re-read; Backblaze B2 charges 0.5 cents (a half a penny) per gig per month. That IS cheaper than what I'm paying, by more than 50%!
*Sent from Microsoft Outlook 1963* On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Riley Loader <[email protected]> wrote: > I do use Duplicity with AWS S3 (Infrequent access) which costs $0.0125 per > GB/month to store and $0.01 per GB to retrieve. There is also a charge for > a given amount of requests to their system (get, put, etc) but even with > that, this is pretty cheap in my opinion. Amazon charged me $0.92 last > month, and this is to back up some 80+ or so GB of data. > > Anyway, to avoid going off-topic, I've never used or heard of Backblaze > B2, but I do use Duplicity (with the Duply wrapper/frontend) and it seems > to work great. I can't vouch for the massive amount of storage space or > backup time that Levi brings up (I have no experience using other options > to compare) but here's stats from last night's backup of my home server: > > --------------[ Backup Statistics ]-------------- > StartTime 1503561610.92 (Thu Aug 24 02:00:10 2017) > EndTime 1503561711.66 (Thu Aug 24 02:01:51 2017) > ElapsedTime 100.74 (1 minute 40.74 seconds) > SourceFiles 171773 > SourceFileSize 83407342647 (77.7 GB) > NewFiles 15 > NewFileSize 58450408 (55.7 MB) > DeletedFiles 4 > ChangedFiles 6 > ChangedFileSize 182407535 (174 MB) > ChangedDeltaSize 0 (0 bytes) > DeltaEntries 25 > RawDeltaSize 59265398 (56.5 MB) > TotalDestinationSizeChange 11743577 (11.2 MB) > Errors 0 > ------------------------------------------------- > > It appears that the "TotalDestinationSizeChange" (the amount of data that > got pushed to S3) turned out to be 11 MB for this incremental, compressed > backup, after having added 56 MB to the source machine. I may be reading > that wrong, but it appears to be pretty efficient, at least for my use case. > > Riley > > *Sent from Microsoft Outlook 1963* > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Levi Pearson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Now that Crashplan is eliminating their home user plan, and also the >> > free peer-to-peer system, I'm in the market for some new cloud backup. >> > Most solutions are about double the cost of what CrashPlan home was. >> > Someone suggested I look at the Backblaze B2 cloud storage system, and a >> > tool like duply/duplicity as an interface into it. The prices seem >> > great to me. They charge .5 cents (real cents, unlike Verizon!) a GB >> > per month for storage, and 2 cents/GB for downloading, which seem >> > reasonable to me. B2 has versioning as well, and if you use duplicity >> > to rsync up to it, it can work as a decent backup system I think. >> > >> >> It looks like they've got a python-based command line tool that has a >> built-in sync command; you wouldn't even necessarily need Duplicity. >> >> >> > Do any of you have experience with Backblaze B2, and have any of you >> > used duplicity to automate and script your backups? >> > >> >> I used Duplicity for a while to do some backups of a non-critical file >> server at work, but I switched to using Borg ( >> https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html) which has >> built-in >> deduplication and, at least as far as my usage goes, works far better at >> keeping a consistent rolling incremental backup without taking a massive >> amount of storage space or backup time. >> >> Borg doesn't have the set of backends that Duplicity does, but you could >> easily use Borg for on-site backup and do a simple sync of the borg >> repository to the off-site backup for remote storage. I don't know if that >> will meet your needs, but it seems like a nice and reasonably-priced >> solution if it does. >> >> >> --Levi >> >> /* >> PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net >> Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug >> Don't fear the penguin. >> */ >> > > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
