Anyone used https://hubic.com/en/offers/ ?
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Riley Loader <riley.loa...@gmail.com> 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 <levipear...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> > 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. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
