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Backblaze B2 vs other storage providers to store legally ripped media (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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!

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[–] Floete@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Storj seems hard to beat regarding price.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for mentioning them, do they seem to be as reliable?

[–] Floete@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

Never had a problem. According to their site, reliability seems great.

[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] maiskanzler@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

Yeah, has anyone ever actually tried restoring from then? I only remember one disgruntled redditor posting about it, but that's about it.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can I do incremental backups with rclone whilst encrypting it?

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Idk about rclone but you can do that with Borg backup.

[–] alibloke@feddit.uk 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Borg is a great tool, you should check it out

[–] maiskanzler@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But Borg does not work with object storage, it needs a borg process on the receiving side.

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Another alternative then would be Restic. That's what I'm using for backups

[–] maiskanzler@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

I've used restic before and it worked great with OVH's object storage. Moved away from cloud backups because of the cost though.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] maiskanzler@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

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.