Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS?
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 19 hours ago
Recently helped someone get set up with backblaze B2 using Kopia, which turned out fairly affordable. It compresses and de-duplicates leading to very little storage use, and it encrypts so that Backblaze can’t read the data.
Kopia connects to it directly. To restore, you just install Kopia again and enter the same connection credentials to access the backup repository.
My personal solution is a second NAS off-site, which periodically wakes up and connects to mine via VPN, during that window Kopia is set to update my backups.
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
The Backblaze option is something I’ve seriously considered.
Any reason this person didn’t go with the $99/year personal backup plan? It says “unlimited” and it is for my household only, but maybe I’m missing something about how difficult it is to setup on Unraid or other NAS software. B2’s $6/TB/mo rate would put me at $150/mo which is not great.
Scrollone@feddit.it 17 hours ago
You can’t use the $99/year plan for that. The authorized client only works as a desktop application on Windows and MacOS.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
They only needed about 500GB.
And personal is for desktop systems. You have to use Backblazes macOS/Windows desktop application, and the setup is not zero-knowledge on Backblazes part. They literally advertise being able to ship you your files on a physical device if need be.
Which some people are ok with, but not what most of us would want.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 14 hours ago
You can ship encrypted files you know……?
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
Yes. Did I suggest otherwise?