I finally got the dreaded over storage warning from google today. What is everyone moving to these days? People were moving to dropbox advance but i heard its not really unlimited anymore. I have 30TB of data that can’t be reproduced (family videos and photos). Any recommendations? I prefer not to spend $100+ a month on backups but if i have to do it then i’ll do it.
if you backup locally so not over a network share you could use Backblazes Personal Backup ( https://hub.docker.com/r/tessypowder/backblaze-personal-wine ) it’s like 8$ for unlimited backup
but they have some kind of tracking for blocking cifs/smb shares but you can circumvent that using dolany my current setup as my data is mainly just a Hetzner 20tb storage box I have a second windows VPS that mounts that CIFS storage using dokany und Just run backblaze Personal backup there was a real hassle to set up an the backup takes for ever but yeah it works
I use AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive. 30 TB would cost you about $27 per month.
How much is it to retrieve the data if needed?
Build A NAS, and AWS Glacier for the very important data. I think AWS is less expensive than BackBlaze
AWS Glacier will be cheaper until you need to restore the data. On AWS, you’ll pay $0.09/GB for bandwidth + Glacier retrieval fees. Over time, AWS might be cheaper but you’ll be looking at a $3000+ bill to restore 30 TB.
That’s a good point. Which provider should I go for, for about 15TB?
The cheapest option I’ve found is Hetzner storage boxes, they don’t even charge for bandwidth. Backblaze and Wasabi are good options too, but Backblaze charges for outbound bandwidth and Wasabi is increasing their prices.
Build a NAS. If you’ve already got one, build a second one as backup. It’s cheaper in the long run than most cloud storage solutions. Especially when you factor in the time it would take for a complete restore.
The main issue with a NAS for this use case is the “what if my house burns down” scenario. Zero/ low effort off site backups are really important for treasured memories.
Also I believe that backblaze can do NAS backups now relatively affordably.
Last I looked it was .005 GB/Month. That adds up quickly when you have 30TB.
What you also might consider is re-encoding your stuff to use less space. Photos can be stored as lower quality jpgs and home movies can be reencoded as hevc. The latter can even be done automatically using something like tdarr.
Scaleway Glacier costs ~€0.002/GB/month, so ~€60 / 30TB
idrive e2 costs $50 / 30TB / month and it’s hot storage
