![]() Well, I am fairly certain that Amazon S3 will handle multi-terabyte backups, mostly because their pricing tiers are for 1 TB, 50TB, 500 TB, 1 Petabyte, 4 Petabytes, and 10 Petabytes - and they make more money the more you store. Hopefully Arq will integrate with B2 in the future and you'd be able to use their system to pick and choose what you want archived and have B2 as a possible repository. On the B2 side, since you're paying per GB, we can afford to keep that data for longer stretches. We hit the $5/month price-point by having our own server design, and by reclaiming space on occasion when data sets are removed. ![]() The philosophies are different, but one of the reasons that we created it was to give folks the option of making actual archives they could keep in the cloud. We need to reclaim that space to keep costs down, and we're not intended nor designed to be an archive (keeping data forever).īackblaze B2 is designed differently and can be used as an archival system. Backblaze was designed as a backup solution, it's intended to be a 1:1 copy of your user data, and if your data set changes we change it on our end as well, with a 30-day history for accidental deletes. I think once I switch away from Aperture over to Photos, which presumably has a rock solid backup to iCloud photos, then simply doing a quarterly backup or so with CarbonCop圜loner + Arq to AWS + DataBackup to USB key will have my OS X backups covered. ![]() Really feel like I'm living in the future. And both crashplan/backblaze "everything for $5" come with massive caveats (like deleting backups of Hard Drives that haven't been plugged in for 6 months - I've got Arq Backups of Hard Drives that I haven't plugged in for a couple years, safe and sound) - and I've never had an AWS backup bill in excess of $3.00, ARQ does a wicked good job of keeping your backups on a tight budget.Īlso - awesome win for ARQ - when I moved to Singapore, I simply added a AWS Singapore S3 Bucket and wowza - fast backups on my gigabit ($49/month) link from MyRepublic. Yes, I have Crashplan (for the last couple years, backblaze for the three years before that) - but the constant chewing up of CPU cycles gets annoying after a while. Arq, (For backups to AWS - though obviously supports every cloud back end under the sun) and "Data Backup" by ProSoft engineering (For backups to USB) are my goto backup tools for day-day ensuring all my work documents are kept up to date.
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