We are a small independent film company and we need to keep our film projects safe. We have local backup on a hard drive, but want the extra security of having an additional backup in the cloud. This is really just emergency, long term backup and will likely never be used, so we want it as cheap as possible while still being as reliable as possible. We already use Backblaze for the work we are currently doing, where we might actually need to restore a file from the cloud, but this request is about long term storage of previous projects that are no longer in production.
Having looked thorugh the forums one option I found is:
Amazon Glacier Deep Archive. It seems that this would cost about $1/TB/month. There would also be fees associated with backing up and then (if necessary) restoring those files - but since we hope never to actually need to restore from this backup, that is less of a concern. Still, for 12 TB of TB now (going up to 18 TB after this project is done) that is still a substantial fee. Also, it seems rather complicated.
As best I can tell, the easiest way to do this (for the non-technically savvy) is to use Arq Backup, though I couldn't find a guide for using Arq with Glacier Deep Archive.
I also have seen people refer to idrive e2 and wasabi as options, but the information there seems even more opaque.
A lot of the information I've found is over 2 years old, and it seems that there have been a lot of changes. Would love to have some more up-to-date information and suggestions. Thanks.