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Keeping Backup Costs Down with B2?
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Backup as a zip? Small files warped up in one big file. Only backup what you can't restore from somewhere else. I think B2 can ship you a HDD to restore from if I remember correctly.
I'd suspect a zip could be problematic for incremental backups. Though that's not a bad idea for files that won't be changing regularly (photos, archives).
Restic will compress as well.
I'll have to look more into it but I use this. I thought it compresses before uploading but I can't find the doc yet. https://docs.duplicati.com/getting-started/set-up-a-backup-in-the-ui