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Ask HN: What is the current state of the art in BIG (>5TB) cloud backups?

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Ask HN: What is the current state of the art in BIG (>5TB) cloud backups?

14•jacobwilliamroy•5h ago
I'm talking about greater than 5 TB in size. Rclone looks really good because I can just give it a bandwidth limit, point it at google drive and fire and forget. But I'm curious if that is the best way to do this? What does HN think?

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slipheen•4h ago
Like so many things, it depends-

How quickly do you need to be able to restore? Is it commercial or homelab?

The most cost-effective option by far would be to put a NAS device someplace offsite. You could use tailscale to connect to it remotely.

After that, depending on your access patterns, either a glacier-style s3 service (aws or backblaze/etc), or a rented bare-metal server with big disks some place inexpensive.

jacobwilliamroy•3h ago
This is for a "warm" backup as opposed to a hot backup so restoration timeline would be like seven days.
monerozcash•4h ago
This needs more information. 5TB is far from "BIG" when it comes to cloud backups.

You can probably get away with google drive+rclone+borg/restic/whatever, but it will be rather clunky. Backblaze might be a nicer backend to use.

I use rsync.net with borg, but not sure about your budget. Their 1TB lifetime plan is very competitive though.

Sohcahtoa82•3h ago
5 TB? I don't know how to count that low.
jacobwilliamroy•3h ago
It's just bigger than any amount I've ever dealt with in my whole life (I'm 30) and also it's hard to find solutions to manage it without running into bandwidth caps and also things are running for a very long time on the client side: days or weeks.
brudgers•2h ago
Why are you choosing to use the cloud instead of spinning rust under your control?

Or to put it another way, why is state of the art important?

kjkjadksj•2h ago
Because you want an offsite backup of your local backups.
jacobwilliamroy•2h ago
I need to know what people are doing recently because most of the documentation I'm finding online is from 3-5 years ago and I want the most up-to-date information.
monerozcash•3m ago
People are doing pretty much exactly what they were doing 3-5 years ago, software has been pretty good for a while no so there hasn't been much change.
bomewish•2h ago
If it’s important just use b2 or hetzner storage box. Use restic or rustic for backup and dedupe and encryption. I run this setup for home and work and we’re doing this on 10tb+.
aynyc•1h ago
I was actually talking to my dad the other day. He asked me if there is a way for him to replicate his hard drive to me without touching cloud providers. The contents are family photos & videos, plus paperwork. I couldn't find a simple solution.