[jik]

The thing is, the majority of the stuff in my backup is my family videos and photos, and frankly I don't have the time to curate it well enough to select out which of the videos and photos are "important" enough to back up and which are not. Perhaps when I am retired. ;-) In the meantime, my time is far more valuable than the money I will spend backing up everything into the cloud. And I'll now be switching from CrashPlan to a backup solution I built myself using Rclone and Backblaze B2, so I will be able to ensure end-to-end that it works the way I need it to.

[pavel_lishin]

At a certain point, isn't it easier and cheaper to just buy a second hard drive, copy everything over, and ship it to an uncle, or a cousin, or your grandparents?

[jik]

No. My Rclone / Backblaze B2 backups happen automatically every night. They're plug-and-play. The backup scripts I wrote verify random files automatically in the backup every night, to confirm that I'm actually successfully backing files up and can successfully retrieve them. If there comes a time when I need to restore huge amounts of data from Backblaze and I don't want to wait for it to download, I can take a snapshot and ask them to write it to a hard drive to ship it to me. Until that happens, I don't have to worry about it, and given that they charge $.005 per GB per month, the storage costs are infinitesimal.

[james-skemp]

Do you have a link to more info on your solution?

[jik]

Thanks for asking. It's one posting back on my blog from the link at the top of this HN thread. ;-)

https://blog.kamens.us/2017/08/24/backing-up-from-unix-to-ba...