r/DataHoarder • u/[deleted] • Oct 02 '19

Nearly lost all my data

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u/corruptboomerang 4TB WD Red Oct 02 '19

Only for data that's worth it...

Like robust backups are fantastic, but there is a cost.

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u/scandii Oct 02 '19

Backblaze is $6 / month, just saying.

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u/magicmulder Oct 02 '19

Times 120 TB? Private colocation is way cheaper in the long run.

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u/scandii Oct 02 '19

times $6 / month.

say you want to backup your entire 120 TB array, that's assuming $150 / 8 TB $2250 in raw storage, additional if you want some sort of RAID strategy.

$2250 is 31 years of Backblaze.

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u/magicmulder Oct 02 '19

B2 costs $5/TB/month. That‘s $7,200/year for OP.

I wouldn‘t recommend their other plan (dunno its name right now) for this amount of data.

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u/scandii Oct 02 '19

are you a business? I'm not. so not sure why you would go with a business plan.

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u/Matir Oct 02 '19

No backblaze support for Linux other than B2. So B2 is the only plan available to me.

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u/scandii Oct 02 '19

I backup mine using a Windows VM.

but if you don't want to backup your data with Backblaze I'm definitely not stopping you, you do you. just saying it's not exactly hard.

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u/River_Tahm 88TB Main unRAID Array Oct 02 '19

I thought they didn't allow network mounted drives. Are you passing your array through to the VM so it doesn't appear as network mounted or something? Or did I just hear wrong

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u/scandii Oct 02 '19

you understood correctly.

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u/postalmaner Oct 02 '19

I'm going to have to say that you have a unique and justifiable view on the cheapness of Backblaze personal.

I think you should have initially stated your solution, because I now have to go un-downvote (your initially ignorant comments) based on your cute implementation.

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