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Backblaze B2 would cost you about $10/mo to store 2TB. I've been using them for years for a few tens of gigabytes worth of documents and photos.

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html

edit: it integrates with TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS) so it's been pretty much set-and-forget, but I can check in and see my stuff through their management interface. I do encrypt my docs before uploading, which TrueNAS also supports.

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Have you had any luck with picking and choosing what gets backed up? I have a bunch of smaller personal files I'd love to sync to B2 (photos, backups, etc.) but I also have 7TB+ of linux ISOs that don't really need to be backed up because I can easily download them again. I tried to exclude the folders I don't want to back up, but I haven't had any luck.

It's been a long time since I set it up, but I believe each cloud sync task will sync one directory. So I've got two tasks: one that syncs /mnt/main/media/Photos in PUSH/COPY mode, and one that syncs /mnt/main/Documents in PUSH/SYNC mode.

You should be able to accomplish the same, but you may need to either re-organize your stuff or set up multiple tasks.

edit: for clarification, "/mnt/main/media" contains various other subdirectories of Linux ISOs etc., which is why I push /mnt/main/media/Photos specifically.

I use rsync with Backblaze. I put everything I want sent to BB in /backupfolder/Archive, and everything else straight in /backupfolder. I have 2 rclone remotes, one pointing to another machine at my house, and 1 pointed to BB.

rclone should do this, its been a while since it set it up, but its a cli to manage cloud storage providers, Backblaze is supported.

I use cyberduck and just manually upload.

There are also (cheaper) S3-compatible providers in Europe, which might be preferable for some: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/object-storage-pro...

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