Object Storage or Block Storage for backups of growing 60+ GB?
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@doodlemania2 IDrive has been around for many years for the computer backup solution (competitors to Backblaze and Carbonate for example). This year they released their s3 storage competitor, so they're basically following in the same shoes as Backblaze. It's all legitimate. They're newer so they're trying to sweeten the deal to attract people away from Backblaze and such, hence the lower pricing if you buy their promo for the year plan. It's only that price for the first year though, definitely not a scam IMO.
I'm currently just trialling with their monthly plan as it's only $0.004 USD per GB, so to store even 800 GB of backups in a month would only be $3.20 USD.
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@doodlemania2 Egress fees? If you want to take your data away, you have to pay?
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@doodlemania2 I also signed up (the regular idrive.com account didn't work with the newer idrive e2), activated S3, made a bucket, checked out the user info, and then saw the buckets were private (for now). Bad timing, hey!
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@doodlemania2 I think that's a setting before you create the bucket.
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went with their main tech support email
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Noticing that tgz of about 35-40 GB GB (well that’s the size after compression, it’s really compressing closer to 60+ GB uncompressed data) and it’s nearly double what it consumes in storage because at least the first backup has that snapshot directory too which is a duplicate of the latest backup. My IDrive e2 bucket shows a total usage of 70 GB currently after one system backup.
I notice if I use rsync the backup times are anywheres between about 20-70 minutes, however when using tgz it’s closer to 120 minutes. That’s about the same performance when using Wasabi and even better than Backblaze in my tests so far.
The downside to rsync is it takes forever to delete so many (tens of thousands of) different files from s3 storage, which means Cloudron cleaning it up or even just me doing it manually to purge older data is a real time sink. Makes me want to use tarballs instead however the upload rate seems to be much less performant. I suppose it is maybe a moot point to some degree because it’d normally be done in the middle of the night when time isn’t really a factor, although it will mess things up for two hours during Cloudron version updates if I (which I would) do system backup prior to that task as the maintenance would be so much longer.
I’m curious though… is there a way to improve the tarball performance? Why is it so dang slow? I assume concurrency but what prevents concurrency from taking place when using tarball? @staff, any suggestions here? Anything I can do or any specific recommendations?
I should note I’ve seen next to zero improvements or changes at all whether I use a part size of 128 MB or 1 GB, doesn’t seem to change anything performance wise.
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@d19dotca said in Object Storage or Block Storage for backups of growing 60+ GB?:
I’m curious though… is there a way to improve the tarball performance? Why is it so dang slow? I assume concurrency but what prevents concurrency from taking place when using tarball? @staff, any suggestions here? Anything I can do or any specific recommendations?
One idea might be to measure just uploading via other tools to see how much the performance difference is. While the tgz code uploader is slow, it's not substantially slower than native tools (from what I have tested). Try to do a tar cvf - upload of the same data directory as the app to the backup storage and measure.
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@d19dotca Thanks for your R&D sharing on this, just trialing it, and the 1 year deals save a lot of money compared to any other S3, including Wasabi.
Really like the UI/UK, much easier for anyone to work with than Wasabi too, as you don't need to create Policies in JSON like you do with other.
from me, definitely recommended for all home users, and most SME needs too!@d19dotca said in Object Storage or Block Storage for backups of growing 60+ GB?:
Interesting. I decided to test something with a local Datacentre closer to my VPS called IDrive e2 (seems like a recent s3 competitor from mid-2022 which promises high speeds).
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FYI, got an email today from IDrive which announced the public buckets for people looking for that, mentioning it here as I know a few people were asking about that feature.
They’ve also made some serious performance tweaks. I noticed before I was seeing it take about 55-75 minutes for a 30+ GB upload in tarball, and now it’s closer to 45-50 minutes for the same size (in fact possibly even larger of a file now to boot as I have a couple more apps deployed now too and email continues to grow larger).
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@d19dotca said in Object Storage or Block Storage for backups of growing 60+ GB?:
I noticed before I was seeing it take about 55-75 minutes for a 30+ GB upload in tarball, and now it’s closer to 45-50 minutes for the same
It may be related to lower traffic and usage over the end of year holidays.
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@robi said in Object Storage or Block Storage for backups of growing 60+ GB?:
It may be related to lower traffic and usage over the end of year holidays.
Entirely possible although I was discussing with them in a support case about the general speed of things and they did say they had recently implemented a change to their service which should speed things up and in my experience it does seem to be improved.
