Furthermore if I knew more about the S3 lifecycle commands I suppose I could throw the recently accessed data on the object storage and the rest in the cold storage, so that I could be as to access recently used files directly without having to "restore" them from the glacier. I recognize that this 2 step approach requires more work but for me it's worth the lowest possible long term storage price.
So far the storage price for the object storage has been ridiculous because after finishing the restoring I immediately send back the data to the glacier, hence minimising the amount of time the data spends in the object storage, so basically the plan for me is working as €0.002 GB/Month + €0.01 GB when I download, the 0.01 fee for the storage in the object storage closely doesn't count. Then I keep the object storage mounted to my host so that whenever I restore data from cold to object storage they "magically" appears. I basically throw the backups directly into the Glacier (the Cold Storage), the one time I needed to retrieve some stuff I've moved it to the Object storage (as mentioned above using the Scaleway web GUI), downloaded it and then from the Scaleway console I "sent" them back to the cold storage. I've moved to this set-up just recently l and I'm using rclone along with Cyberduck and Mountain Duck.
#Backblaze alternative download#
Upload scenario: Using any S3 client you can bypass the object storage and upload directly to the cold storage.ĭownload/live accessibility scenario: From the Scaleway console you choose which bucket/file/folder etc you want to retrieve, after a couple of minutes (personally, in average, I never had to wait longer than 1 minute so far) the content gets "parked" in the object storage (where you pay €0.01/GB/month but actually the ticker goes by the hour till a cap of a month) and you can access it with any S3 client, Nextcloud supports it too if I recall correctly, bandwidth download is €0.01/GB. You have an object storage and a cold storage. This diagram helps understand the logic of usage. It is an S3 compatible object storage which isn't directly accessible, it works in conjunct with the Scaleway Object Storage. It's the cheapest I've ever found, the Glacier offer is also pretty new.
#Backblaze alternative free#
First 75 GB are free and not counted in the plan, the excess over 75 GB is €0.002/GB/Month. If your purpose truly is backups with little to no need to access them (except in case of a recovery as you said) check out Scaleway C14 Cold Storage (aka Glacier). Thanks again to all of you, I learned quite a bit ) I am now looking forward to receive my RPi4, setup Nexcloud + auto backup scripts on B2, and use it in parallel with my formal Sync plan, the time for the transition. In the end, for my use case, I would be paying around $5 a year, which is amazing! Did some testing with Rclone which worked of course perfectly. I have mostly been looking into Backblaze B2 and so far, this solution is already a great fit. Thanks in advance for your recommendations. Server location and bandwidth don't matter much, as files will be encrypted and just to be used in case of a problem. Requirements are (the order matters, most important on top):Įasy to setup with Nextcloud: I don't want to get back to it every month to fix stuff I also want Nextcloud for all other features it brings, like a better app, plugins, data 100% owned, contacts, calendar, etc.
It's hard to beat, but it's still too much storage for me. I'm currently using an old Sync plan of for $49/year for 500GB. Is there any good and cheaper alternatives to these $6/month? I basically have around 80GB of data that I'm about to migrate to a self-hosted Nextcloud instance, and I don't see the amount of data going beyond 100GB in the next few years. It can sound a little provocating here, at $6/month for unlimited data is actually very cheap, but for my use case, it is still too expensive. I am looking for a cloud backup that would be cheaper than Backblaze.
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