Someone on Lemmy posted a phrase recently: “If you’re not prepared to manage backups then you’re not prepared to self host.”

This seems like not only sound advice but a crucial attitude. My backup plans have been fairly sporadic as I’ve been entering into the world of self hosting. I’m now at a point where I have enough useful software and content that losing my hard drive would be a serious bummer. All of my most valuable content is backed up in one way or another, but it’s time for me to get serious.

I’m currently running an Ubuntu Server with a number of Docker containers, and lots of audio, video, and documents. I’d like to be able to back up everything to a reliable cloud service. I currently have a subscription to proton drive, which is a nice padding to have, but which I knew from the start would not be really adequate. Especially since there is no native Linux proton drive capability.

I’ve read good things about iDrive, S3, and Backblaze. Which one do you use? Would you recommend it? What makes your short list? what is the best value?

  • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    22 hours ago

    I use the unlimited consumer backblaze with private key on a windows VM. I provision a 40tb iscsi connection to the VM from a NAS and all kinds of various homelab systems and devices store thier backups there. Works great and is the cheapest possible option at $9 a month.

    • Goodtoknow@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      21 hours ago

      Is that not against their TOS? Could make the service more expensive for the rest of us

          • horse_battery_staple@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            Well yes and no. The rate at which you get your data back is where the gotcha lies anything up to 8TB is free if you send them $280 and they’ll refund the money once they get the drive back. Anything over 8TB is where it gets pricey.

            • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              1 hour ago

              And do that multiple times?

              There aren’t any “gotchas” they absolutely lose money us who store more than a few TB but its worth it considering that we are in the minority.

              Someone from BB posted a graph showing the distribution of data usage over all users and the VAST majority are under 1-2 TB

            • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              1 hour ago

              And the situation where I need to restore more then 8tb would be when I lost all my original data, and the backup NAS itself.

              If that happens I’m not worrying about spending $280.

      • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        20 hours ago

        I’m not sure about the iscsi protocol. They allow VMs, including harddrives via USB, so the point of doing this making it more expensive does not apply considering someone could just hook up 100tb+ of USB drives and still be clear under the TOS.

        If they did have a problem with this I would just do that instead.