Hi everyone,
I would like to ask your opinions on reliable cloud storage providers for media. I have a media collection that isn’t too big (about 2-3TB) that I’d like to store on the cloud since I’ll be moving in the future and don’t think I can handle multiple hard drives.
What do you suggest? Any issues I should be looking at? I came across Wasabi too, along with the more expensive Scaleway and Cloudflare R2 offerings. For now Backblaze seems fine in terms of reliability, but has anyone come across complaints from them regarding what is stored on their servers?
Thanks!
Storj seems hard to beat regarding price.
Thanks for mentioning them, do they seem to be as reliable?
Never had a problem. According to their site, reliability seems great.
I don’t use b2, rather; I have a personal account. Backing up 3 computers and they’ve never said anything over years So. Yeah it’s fine
I have a personal account. Backing up 3 computers and they’ve never said anything over years
Until you need to use the backup and the process is like shit. And takes weeks to months.
Yeah, has anyone ever actually tried restoring from then? I only remember one disgruntled redditor posting about it, but that’s about it.
I won’t comment on legality of anything, but if you encrypt your data it’ll be impossible for anyone to tell what it is. Rclone has an option to do this.
Can I do incremental backups with rclone whilst encrypting it?
Idk about rclone but you can do that with Borg backup.
Borg is a great tool, you should check it out
But Borg does not work with object storage, it needs a borg process on the receiving side.
Another alternative then would be Restic. That’s what I’m using for backups
I’ve used restic before and it worked great with OVH’s object storage. Moved away from cloud backups because of the cost though.
For a short period of time, nobody will care, especially with almost zero traffic.
But for only up to 3tb, you can easily fit that on a single drive.
Hey on that 3tb thing… can I pick and choose folders or parts of folders from the backups?
Or, say, I want to move stuff around in folders… is that possible after the backup has reached them and is only visible to me through their web interface?
Depends a lot on what backup software you use. Blackbase B2 ist just an S3-like object storage service. It’s the underlying software stack of many different things, one of those can be backup software. They do have their own backup solution though. But in that case B2 is the wrong product for you to look at.
