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0 pointsDylan168071y ago0 comments

AWS, GCP, and Azure all offer cold storage for about $1 per TB per month. If you want any cheaper you need to build a second NAS.

You could also take the awkward route and add one or two large drives to your desktop, mirror there, and back that up to backblaze (not B2).

The other suggestions you got for hot storage strike me as the wrong way to handle this, if you're considering $80 per year per TB for backups then just make another NAS.

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vunderba1y ago

For the OP - be careful with AWS, the closest pricing to one dollar per terabyte is S3 Glacier Deep Archive and you'd be surprised how expensive a full restore can be in the event that you need to do so in terms of restore pricing, egress cost, etc.

Another NAS isn't really a good solution (unless you can place it in a different house) - the goal of a cloud back up is that it's offsite.

Dylan16807OP1y ago

While true that it is something to be wary of, if you restore the entire backup at full cost every two years it's still cheaper than B2.

The egress is only super high when you compare to how cheap $1 per month is.

And I bet you can find somewhere offsite for a NAS for free or a tiny fraction of $150/month.

barnabee1y ago

I use Glacier alongside RAID with 4 drives so that I can recover from any single drive failure (which will happen) just by swapping in a new drive.

Had this setup ~10 years and have had to replace a drive on two occasions but never needed to restore from Glacier.

At this point even if I do need to do a Glacier restore one day it’s still going to work out to be pretty economical.

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