I’m considering Restic and Backblaze B2 as my backup solution. I’m a little worried having read about the potential for unexpected restore costs. For example, I’ve read restoring lots of little files adds to the cost (reference). What are the things to look out for when backing up and restoring that can add to the cost? Are there any best practices to keep costs down?
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I use B2 for my restic Backup. Currently i have about 100GB stored there and it says i have about 100,000 files stored.
With the adjusted calculation of the blog you posted for 10TB of 50KB files, adjusted to the mean file size of my restic repository 10 TB of 1MB files:
Transaction fees: 10,000,000 / 10,000 x $0.004 = $4
My Laptop has a mean file size of about 16 MB per file on the local restic repository.
EDIT: Forgot a resume, i do not think you need to worry about it too much. But maybe verify the amount and type of data you want to backup and use calculators to calculate the real cost, also you can always test it by creating a test dataset and then do a backup and recovery scenario and then use this to derive an estimate.
Question: What does BackBlaze B2 give you that BackBlaze’s personal account doesn’t?
To my knowledge:
- File Versions only 30 days available.
- -> Everything older and deleted than 30 days gone.
- Slow and manual Restore Process
- -> Web downloads max. 500 GB manual selection.
B2 is data storage, Backblaze Personal is a service. 2 Completely different things.
The BackBlaze personal page only lists Windows and Mac as supported. I have both, but also multiple Linux machines that I need to back up.
I’ve always wondered, doesn’t Backblaze cut exfiltration costs to zero if you proxy it through cloudflare? Why isn’t that an option so you’re only paying for storage costs and not bandwidth?
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.
