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Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up DB and OD — as firm leans heavier into AI storage services, changes could signal shift away from home backups (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/45169245

DB = Dropbox, OD = Onedrive

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[–] 29 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Uhg. Where do I go now? I really just ultimately want encrypted zfs replication...

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago

    Just price out S3 compatible storage and use backup software that can encrypt. Then it doesn't matter who holds it.

    Wasabi is reputable and has fair pricing. iDrive is well priced.

    I'm still sending to B2 until the price actually changes for me.

    I personally use Duplicati (and yes I've tested restores).

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    rsync.net offers ZFS send/receive and I’ve been using it for 5 years now, it’s pretty great. It’s not super expensive per GB, but they ask a minimum of 5TB if you want native ZFS support, which is $60/month.

    You get access to a full FreeBSD VM which is very nice, because you can do things like metrics or a “pull” setup that pulls backups from your machines, so you’re more resilient against stuff like ransomware.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    This would increase my yearly cost from $99 to over 10k

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    You have over 70TB of data you want to backup? That’s a lot. How are you making backups of that for only 99/year?

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I have a 190TB NAS, and Backblaze is $99 for unlimited. At least it was until now

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Backblaze is definitely losing money on you every year, so good luck finding an alternative. I pay $100+/month just in power and network costs to have my own hardware colocated in a real data center, and that's saving me money compared to renting 200TB anywhere else.

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