Feature Request: Backblaze B2 As Backup Target
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Wasabi prices are kind of incredible, IMO and I have not seen cheaper options. B2 also has the aspect that download costs money. So if you want to restore 150GB, this costs $1.5.
Only option that is comparable is probably Hetzner storage box. 1TB is around $9. This solution is only practical if your server is somewhere near their storage box.
(Ignoring the cheapest option of buying a external hard disk and attaching it to your physical server
I bought a 2TB disk for just $55. The disk will pay for itself in 8 months of cloud storage) -
Update on using rsynch to Backblaze B2:
On one Cloudron, I have 23 Apps installed, most are just default installs a few migrated websites.
98GB of backup storage with lifecycle retention of last 2 versions. 1.1 million files.
Backblaze B2 ingress seems to be costing about the same as the storage, last month was $4.95.
The Billing page is shit too as they use the US date-format, the only country in the world with that weirdness and you'd think developers would know better. Maybe their measuring ingress in Pounds, Ounzes, Cups, Quarts, Feet & Inches?
Conclusion being, Backblaze B2 will be cheaper if you're using tarball backups or for up to about 150GB rsync.
Wasabi will be cheaper if you want rsync for incremental backups for more than about 150GB.
Personally I'm leaning towards sticking with rsync for incremental and changing that target to Wasabi as storage needs grow.
Absolute ideal would be to have both; tarball to B2 and rsync to Wasabi - or even have 2 x B2 accounts.
That's all in addition to provider snapshots — so 3 separate physical, jurisdictional and provider locations. Could probably do more with Synchthing as well but that might be overdoing it.
Can't think of a more comprehensive, risk-spread replication and lower cost setup than all that unless anyone has experience otherwise?
@marcusquinn Great summary! I've similarly found that ingress transaction costs are more than my monthly storage costs with rsync option and tar zip backups keep timing out.
@girish Thanks for adding the additional advanced backup configuration in 5.5! I've tried increasing it for my backups and am excited to see if it helps.
