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What's your backup strategy?
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Depending on how much storage do you need (>30 TB?), it may be cheaper to use a colocation service for a server as an offsite backup instead of cloud storage. It's not as safe, but it can be quite cheaper, especially if for some reason you're forced to rapidly download a lot of your data from the cloud backup. (Backblaze b2 costs $0.01/gb downloaded).
Do you have an example or website I could look at for this 'colocation service'?
Currently using idrive as the cloud provider, which is free until the end of the year, but I'm not locked into their service. Cloud backups really only see more active files (<7TB), and the unchanging stuff like my movie or music catalogue seems reasonably safe on offsite HDD backups, so I don't have to pay just to keep those somewhere else.
First I'd like to apologize because I originally wrote less than 30TB instead of more than 30TB, I've changed that in the post.
A colocation is a data center where you pay a monthly price and they'll house your server (electricity and internet bandwidth is usually included unless with certain limits and if you need more you can always pay extra).
Here's an example. It's usually around $99/99€ per 1U server. If you live in/near a big city there's probably at least a data center that offers colocation services.
But as I said, it's only worth it if you need a lot of storage or if you move files around a lot, because bandwidth charges when using object storage tend to be quite high.
For <7 TB it isn't worth it, but maybe in the future.
Thanks for the info. Something to consider as my needs grow 👍