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Comment by dsego | Hacker News Reader

For digital media we really need a good stable archival storage solution. Nothing on the market right now for ordinary people.

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There's plenty of backup services and cloud solutions. The article mentions Borg and Restic, others like Backblaze are more consumer friendly. Which needs do you have that aren't met by any of these tools?

Backups are not archival storage. If you stop paying for service, say goodbye to your data.

I'm using Backblaze, but as a Kopia repository.

> backup services and cloud solutions

online backup should not be your primary method of backup, you're one billing, identity theft, financial issue, or health issue away from getting your backup nuked

do you have PBS clout? if not good luck https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/08/pbs-s...

PBS's situation is entirely PBS fault. If you've got 50TB of data to backup it's either worth $300 to $400 a month to you to do it properly with a reputable vendor along with on-site storage, or ... just accept you'll lose it.

It was such a tremendously silly decision I almost wonder if it wasn't a politically motivated decision. Maybe the provider that went under had some relative DEI points versus Backblaze or AWS. Just bizarre.

But I wouldn't extrapolate anything out from their situation.

Online only is fine as an actual backup, presuming you have the primary in your control.

It shouldn’t be the only copy of the data that exists.

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