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There's also Backblaze B2 (public beta): https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html

Their pricing is great (0.5c/month) but I'm a little worried about their single DC.

3 days ago they sent a newsletter about their new (alpha quality) b2sync tool which essentially is a “rsync to backblaze” utility.

This makes their offer very interesting.

Can this tool offer deduplication (so that changing a folder name does not re-upload thousands of files) or is that something I would have to code into my own backup solution?

No, it is even less than rsync. It can only upload a folder recursively and skip files with common modification time on local and remote.

Considering though that before that you couldn't even upload a directory, only files, this is a huge step. :)

I currently need some help whipping up a solution for this.

git with lfs

I hear people say Backblaze is a single DC frequently, but I've never been able to find anything on their site confirming or denying.

Is there any source for the single DC?

EDIT: Nevermind. I did some more googling & found one:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/b2-cloud-storage-frequent-que...

They may also take a while to have the same level of software support, since their API isn't compatible with the S3 API. I know of at least one online backup software provider that works with multiple storage backends but which when asked did not intend to support B2 (since Backblaze is technically a competitor).

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