I’ve been backing up to a dedicated hard disk within the same server for all my backups in case my disks fail. And as I run more and more services, the concern of disks failures grow bigger.

I’m looking for a cheapish off-site backup solution and I’m just curious what everyone does for their 3-2-1 backup solutions.

  • Pfifel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    To copy a comment from reddit:

    HTWingNut:

Backblaze Personal only works with Windows PC's and Mac, and drives that are physically connected to the computer. No VM's, no network drives/hardlinks/symlinks, etc. You have to use their software to backup too. As someone else noted, for recovery you can grab files in 500GB chunks as a zip, or 8TB drive mailed to you (free of charge up to 5 per year). Data needs to be retained on your local drives otherwise it will delete them from their servers after 30 days unless you upgrade to their 1 year retention plan.

I have a Windows PC that is on 24/7 for a number of things, and I just put a hard drive in there that I backup my most important NAS files to that, and it gets backed up to Backblaze Personal.

Backblaze Personal is cheap and I see the appeal, but you have to understand and live with those caveats for "unlimited" backup.

    I use B2 with rclone and just backup “important” stuff on my NAS with cron jobs. I guess you could have rclone move the “important” stuff from NAS to a “burner” PC which uses Backblaze Personal.

    I don’t have enough data to warrant all that so I use B2 for now and I have around 50GB of data so the price is cheap

    • bierEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I’m currently backing up my 20TB Hetzner Storage box using a windows VM to Backblaze Personal backup. I’m using https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany to mount the SMB share as a “real” local drive.