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If it's your only backup, yes, you definitely should.

It's one of two backups. The software is great. Dropbox level of just works. iDrive by comparison is cheaper but always errors and files it couldn't touch.

Yeah do NOT do iDrive if you use git or care about symlinks, I learned the hard way. Backblaze doesn't backup symlinks either for that matter...

I use restic with b2 as a backend

It’s not the same service as backblaze’s client but it does everything I need, with dedupe

Yeah I use duplicati, basically the same, it slow but works well and has saved my bacon a few times in real-world situations.

"Yeah do NOT do iDrive if you use git or care about symlinks, I learned the hard way. Backblaze doesn't backup symlinks either for that matter..."

Gosh, if only there were a cloud storage provider that gave you an empty UNIX filesystem you could do anything you wanted with ... maybe something built totally on open standards that could handle hardlinks and symlinks and such ?

If only ...

tarsnap, mega ;)

The world would be a better place if more people used tarsnap…

It is expensive. If we do a monthly test restore like someone suggested then 1TB costs $6000/y. No restores is $3000/y. s3 regular is 10% of that.

I've wanted to use ya'll for a long time but the ~2x price compared to B2 has always stopped me. A remote ZFS cloud really is such an attractive idea though... maybe it's time to reconsider after this article.

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