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by adar 1697 days ago
I'd feel deeply uncomfortable backing up 80tb of data to a $60/year plan, tbh.
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What you should be more uncomfortable with is the fact that there's basically no way to exfiltrate that data in any cost-effective, practical manner and there's zero recourse if a backup storage company goes "oops" and loses all your data or one day decides to just close up shop.
I don't think backblaze has a chance at losing data, but I really use it as the last resort "oh shit" place. If I lose a drive I'll pay a bit of a premium for whatever multiple of 8TB needs to be sent my way, I'm going to be replacing a $2-300 drive anyways.
It's probably not very important 80 tb.
It isn't, and the super important stuff is backed up a lot more times, a lot more ways.