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BlueBockser@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I do an automated nightly backup via restic to Backblaze B2. Every month, I manually run a script to copy the latest backup from B2 to two local HDDs that I keep offline.

It’s pretty low-maintenance and gives a high degree of resilience:

A ransomware attack won’t affect my local HDDs, so at most I’ll lose a month’s worth of data.
A house fire or server failure won’t affect B2, so at most I’ll lose a day’s worth of data.

restic has been very solid, includes encryption out of the box, and I like the simplicity of it. Easily automated with cron etc. Backblaze B2 is one of the cheapest cloud storage providers I could find, an alternative might be Wasabi if you have >1TB of data.

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BigNerdAlert@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
How much are you backing up? Admittedly backblaze looks cheap but at $6 Tb leaves me with $84 pcm or just over $1000 per year.

I’m seriously considering a rpi3 with a couple of external disk in an outbuilding instead of cloud

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- BlueBockser@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Oh, I think we’re talking different orders of magnitude here. I’m in the <1TB range, probably around 100GB. At that size, the cost is negligible.
  
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- Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Isn’t backblaze is like $6 per TB 🤔🤔🤔
  
  So $216 a year?
  
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  - BigNerdAlert@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    $6 x 14Tb = $84 month x 12 months = $1008 per year, or did I miss read the prices?
    
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    Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Sorry, I thought you or somebody said they store 3TB. Probably I’m mistaken, sorry 🥲
    
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Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Did you know it’s also possible to setup backups on the drive connect, also a good thing to turn off the networking beforehead 😶‍🌫️

Also, i’m using ntfy.sh for notifications And if you’re using raid, you can setup it with on a drive failure

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