I had backblaze, and it’s really a bummer they don’t support linux. The closest one I’ve found is Icedrive, but it costs a bit more. I don’t mind paying a bit more though for a FOSS solution (technially not free but yeah). I probably only have 2 TB of actual important stuff but it would be nice to have more for future.
I’ve just installed kopia on my home server. The web interface is super simple and it has exactly all the features I want (encryption, differential & retention tweaking).
It works with S3, so I pay less than a cent per GB for a cloud provider from my country. This pricing works best for me because I only backup about 20GB of data.
I use Nextcloud with Hetzner Storage Share. Quite cheep, and easy to synch two PCs and a phone. I also use another old PC where I sync to every week to have a ‘local’ backup.
I use Woelkli’s Nextcloud server. It’s free.
me, too, but it only allows 2GB. If you plan to encrypt it for when you aren’t needing it, then you can only use half that as encryption doubles files. I’ve been wondering if Owncloud, NC’s close cousin, has a free account, too. I could use Owncloud for images, I guess.
I’ve been using mega.nz and Google Drive. I’ve tried a few other solutions, but didn’t stick with them. Then I tried Proton Drive, and it works fine. But now I mostly use pCloud, because I got a good deal, for a lifetime 2TB, for one payment. This I use now…
I considered Proton Drive but stopped when I realized that if I did then access to my email would be contingent on keeping up to date with my subscription, where it wouldn’t on the free tier.
Have you looked into Spideroak One?
I think their consumer service is end of life. It was down for weeks not too long ago.
Huh, I didn’t notice. But they are now claiming to be investing heavily in bringing new features and performance. We’ll see.
For Linux you can use Backblaze B2 with Restic, Backrest is a nice webUI and scheduler for Restic that I like using.
iDrive also supports linux with their own backup app, it works reasonably well.
Exactly what I use. 1 TB Backblaze B2, Backrest running on my main server, my NAS, and my desktop. I should honestly probably set it up on my steam deck too for the hell of it.
Small daily backups from my servers of configs and such, bigger weekly backups from the server and the desktop.
Backing up the entire media library to a cloud service is out of the question, so I (plan to) run a manual job from each machine to an external HDD once a month, primarily as a media backup but may as well put everything there that matters, and then I shove the drive into my storage unit for a bit.
(I say “plan to” because I just got the NAS set up this past week and used this external drive for the initial media transfer, I’ve set up the jobs but haven’t run them yet)
I second B2, it just works and no horrible UI like backblazes backup app. Me personally, I use Proxmox backup server. All of my VMs run on Proxmox and I have a couple PBS around.
+1 for Restic on Backblaze. It’s cheap af for my setup because all my data is on a RAID 10 pool with snapshots. Then anything that needs to be safe from theft/fire/unlikely number of simultaneous failures gets sent to Backblaze.
Got sick of waiting for Proton Drive desktop client for Linux, went to Filen and am pretty happy with it.
I’ve been pretty happy with rsync.net, with the promo rate I’m on I get 1.6TB for $10/mo. More than enough for backing up my most important files, private keys, camera roll, anything irreplaceable.
The rest of my NAS is 50TB of movies and shows so I’ve just resigned myself to the fact that it will never be affordable to backup more than my user folder.
Cloud backups, AWS, because they’ve feed me piles of credits (less so lately though) so it’s practically free.
I back very little up to the cloud though as it’s so expensive. Basically just the storage of my local Git server which has all the configs, app and microservices I’ve built for my home automations and lab. Syncs straight from my NAS where the Git server is hosted.
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I’m very satisfied with Hetzner Storage Box. It’s dirt cheap (1 TB for € 3.20) and they support a lot of file transfer protocol / backup software. I’m using Borg for that part.
This is really neat, but much too expensive for me
Crashplan, currently around 4TB and several million files being backed up without issue.
Recently swapped from bare metal to docker without issue.
Backblaze B2 using Kopia
