What to use as offsite backup?
What do you use for offsite backup? Since best practice recommends 3 copies on 2 different devices where one device is offsite.
I thought about renting a storage box from Hetzner to use as an offsite backup but I was curious what you are using. And also if there might be some cheaper alternatives to my proposed solution that are equally as easy to setup.
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If you have a Windows or Mac machine, Backblaze will give you UNLIMITED backup storage (not B2) for $7 per month. They won't let you use Linux and they won't let you back up network drives, because that's easy to abuse.
So, I have an 8TB drive in my Windows Plex server and shared on the network, and I have every other machine in my house backing up to that network location. Because the drive is local to that one windows machine, Backblaze will back it all up, and any other drives I put on there. I use FileHistory to back up my Windows gaming machine and SyncThing to back up non-Windows machines.
It takes a little work to set up with SyncThing, but I'm pretty sure that's one of the cheapest ways to back up a shitload of data. And Backblaze recently upgraded the unlimited plan to 1 year of history.
On the flip side the B2 storage is great, it's now even an S3 clone
True; B2 is definitely worth the extra money that you would pay for it, and my hacky way of exploiting their consumer backup plan is arguably a sketchy solution, and a waste of my own time. But I'm a cheap-ass, so that's how I roll. 😆
You can try for linux: https://hub.docker.com/r/tessypowder/backblaze-personal-wine
That's a neat option, thanks.