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My goto tool for secure backups is tarsnap. He only supports S3 as far as I know so using B2 could be a good differentiator.

Wonder if either of you will add support for cloudflares R2?

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I think price is the main differentiator here. TarSnap is 50x as expensive.

Does Cloudflare’s R2 exist?

I saw the announcement but nothing else other than folks like me wondering; has anyone at all got access yet?

Seems its still in closed beta: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/cloudflares-r2-st...

But yeah, comment sounds so weird for a non released product.

Ah good so it actually does exist in a way that's more than a spec, that's good enough for me.

I'm in no rush with that slurp mode or whatever they called it, just hadn't heard of anything more since the announcement :)

I acknowledge it may not happen but cloudflare hasn't done anything to make me doubt them.

Isn't backblaze still just a single datacenter?

There is nothing weird postulating about using a storage service with the lowest price among cloud providers with (planned) free egress on a show HN thread.

You are certainly free to disagree if free egress actually matters but cloudflare R2 is the first to offer free egress AFAIK. B2 may be cheap at 1¢ / GB but that still adds up once you start moving TBs around.

Lots of variables and unknowns and room for debate.

> I acknowledge it may not happen but cloudflare hasn't done anything to make me doubt them.

I suspect CF R2 may get popular and multiple tools will work with CF. Why not?

The lack of direct support for Windows prevented me from using tarsnap. Restic allows me to use shadow volumes.

backblaze supports s3 protocol

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