For me I had a stack dvd blanks left over, I decided to save a little bit of money and used them to back up folders of childhood photos, documents etc and place them inside their own jewel cases.
I do have a 2TB external HDD, But that I throw on LARGE steam game back ups and movies.
Sure, the “cloud” exists and I use that too but what if your intewebz goes down, good luck getting your backups until it’s back up.
What do you use? Optical media, tape drives etc?
Do you have any idea what the cost is to restore 50 TB from that?
What happens when they decide to raise the price? It kind of leaves a person trapped there. And it’s also not like Amazon hasn’t lost data before. About 7 years ago couple of my S3 buckets disappeared and came back 6 months older than when they disappeared.
I’m right around that 50 to 60 TB mark. It’s annoying because it’s too expensive for hobbiest live storage too big for most removable media storage.
I currently keep a small hot store of the most important things. And I’m slowly splitting up the less important ISOs and putting them on cheap rotational media for cold store.
I’m really sad that crash plan shut down their consumer client. They had a really cool feature where you could run a client locally, run another client at a friend or family member’s house and back up to their target with full and to end encryption and encryption at rest. But there doesn’t appear to be anything that clean anymore.
Long-term goal, there was a guy I saw about 10 years ago that buried a raspberry pie with a POE hat in a large PVC tube 3 ft underground. He made it a I-SCSI target. I figure if the eight terabyte NVMe’s ever come down in price, I’ll stack up some PCI Express switching and make something truly magnificent.
I assumed you’re only paying per GB storage. At least that’s what their S3 pricing page says. I believe transfer cost only applies if you transfer from one S3 solution to another. I’m not using it myself, so I don’t know the details. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
If you depend on AWS you’re doing something wrong. You should at least adher to the 3-2-1 backup plan. If you do so, you can switch away from AWS any time they change their policy.
Storing 60 tb in deep glacier for a year is about 3 grand.
Retrieving it from glacier is 4 grand, and it incurs five grand in transfer costs.
Backblaze B2 is closer to six grand a year but doesn’t have any egress or transfer fees.
The problem is, at those prices I could just buy discs in a nice pelican case, every year.