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.
Crashplan, currently around 4TB and several million files being backed up without issue.
Recently swapped from bare metal to docker without issue.
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.
Backblaze B2B with duplicacy
I use Woelkli’s Nextcloud server. It’s free.
Got sick of waiting for Proton Drive desktop client for Linux, went to Filen and am pretty happy with it.
This is really neat, but much too expensive for me
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.
+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.
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.
This won’t work for you because it’s not enough space, but other people might consider paying money to a place like SDF. I think it was $3 a month (IIRC) for 800 GB of space, and it’s for a good cause.
I use rsync and gocryptfs to back my stuff up there. I also have local hard drives for backups.
Maybe there’s another pubnix that you can pay to get more storage.
Back in the day, I had local hard drives that I would mirror and sneakernet to my friend’s house every couple weeks. We’d trade drives and then we’d have an off-site.
If I weren’t using SDF, I’d probably set up a home server someplace or talk to a friend who already had one and rsync to that.
seconding SDF. they’ve also got great resources such as a cool mastodon server/lemmy/etc. the unix shell is neat too
Backblaze B2 using Kopia
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.
I have a numebr of backup systems going on, but if i take “cloud” to mean “offsite” then my sution to that is a proxmox backup server set up in my home (great for proxmox PVEs but you can back up anything to them) and my friend 3000 miles away also has one in his home. We each set up sync jobs so our local backups are also stored on the remote proxmox backup server.
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’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.
I had a look at some of the more recommended options out there and decided to invest my money in physical storage instead. I know this is not the answer you are looking for, but it makes more sense in my use case.
seconding this; unless you’re paying for it: they use your data to make money and have (and do) make use of your data as leverage to get you to pay more.
setting up your own home server that’s accessible to the internet is much cheaper, but it does come with risks that you must make yourself aware of to mitigate.
I’ll add that if you do use cloud storage (a.k.a. someone else’s computer) for backups, make sure all your data is encrypted (preferably also compressed and deduplicated). If you value your data you’ll also keep a separate, offline copy.
