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Call me silly, but this seems like a great option for backing up nonessential personal data like a movie collection. It's even cheaper than Backblaze B2, and the limitations (180 day minimum storage, 12 hour retrieval time) don't seem like bad tradeoffs.

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Just the thing I was looking for to back up my NAS offsite. Although not sure how to test the backup cost effectively, so I'm treating it as separate from my 3-2-1 strategy for now.

Bandwidth is between 9x and 5x more expensive compared to B2, though.

For backing up something personal, why don't you just use actual Backblaze?

Backblaze is not necessarily optimal for this use case, since "files are expunged from the servers after 30 days if they're removed from a computer" [1]. For files stored for archive purposes, such as some old movies or CDs, it might be that due to user error you happen to remove something but only notice this when you actually need the content.

[1] https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217664898-What-...

That sounds like their backup client software... B2 is dead cheap and there's a lot of 3rd party clients which give you complete control over retention/versioning.

> B2 is dead cheap

B2 is 400% more expensive than Deep Archive. Whether the lower transfer costs result in savings depends on your use case. For B2 the cost of transfer is 5x a month of storage, for Deep Archive it’s 90x.

GCS is also cheaper than S3, with even higher transfer costs, but instant access irrespective of storage class.

It's also not some weird ass tape system that requires you to build your entire workflow to accommodate it and then get surprise bills on retrieval because it wasn't as cheap as you thought.

“Today [November 2016] we are replacing the rate-based retrieval fees with simpler per-GB pricing.”

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-s3-glaci...

In addition to the other response, regular Backblaze doesn't support Linux.

Not OP but - No Linux support. I use it on my Windows machines but need something for Linux

What about rclone? Or are you looking for only official clients?

I may have misread but I read “actual backblaze” as their $5/mo per-machine backup service

I do indeed use B2 for my personal Linux backups

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