On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now that Crashplan is eliminating their home user plan, and also the > free peer-to-peer system, I'm in the market for some new cloud backup. > Most solutions are about double the cost of what CrashPlan home was. > Someone suggested I look at the Backblaze B2 cloud storage system, and a > tool like duply/duplicity as an interface into it. The prices seem > great to me. They charge .5 cents (real cents, unlike Verizon!) a GB > per month for storage, and 2 cents/GB for downloading, which seem > reasonable to me. B2 has versioning as well, and if you use duplicity > to rsync up to it, it can work as a decent backup system I think. > It looks like they've got a python-based command line tool that has a built-in sync command; you wouldn't even necessarily need Duplicity. > Do any of you have experience with Backblaze B2, and have any of you > used duplicity to automate and script your backups? > I used Duplicity for a while to do some backups of a non-critical file server at work, but I switched to using Borg ( https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html) which has built-in deduplication and, at least as far as my usage goes, works far better at keeping a consistent rolling incremental backup without taking a massive amount of storage space or backup time. Borg doesn't have the set of backends that Duplicity does, but you could easily use Borg for on-site backup and do a simple sync of the borg repository to the off-site backup for remote storage. I don't know if that will meet your needs, but it seems like a nice and reasonably-priced solution if it does. --Levi /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
