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Backing up an external 4-Bay closure (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by eqchin@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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Hi guys, I've got a few HDD's flying around in external closures with mostly non-critical data.
At the same time I've been thinking about getting a little home server to set up stuff like pihole, paperless-ngx, smart home connectivity, etc. and while doing that I was thinking about getting a 4-bay closure to bring all the HDD's together into one.

While doing some research, I stumbled accross Backblaze which offer their personal service for around 70 bucks a year. Although most of the data being non-critical for that price I would rather pay that price than having the headache of trying to get that data back once a drive says goodbye.

Anyone of you using Backblaze personal as sort of backup? If so, what are your experiences with it?
As far as I know they do not offer a Linux client but I could probably set up a VM and passing through the HDD to it and use the Windows client, I guess?

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[–] GoingOffRoading@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Backblaze is a phenomenal company.

My heart goes out to those guys.

I'm currently doing my off-site backups in Azure (Microsoft) Blob Storage. 50 TB backed up in archive tier is costing me about $50/mo.

If I need to graduate this data to cool tier, and download it, the transaction costs are going to suck.

Outside of that, I'm pretty happy with Azure.

[–] WikiBox@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I use another multibay external enclosure.