It is a feature rich alternative to cloud vendors’ web storage interfaces. Rclone is a command line program to manage files on cloud storage. Rsync would not work in this case because it works with file system but with B2 you would need to use API, b2 CLI, S3 compatible tools (because it is compatible with S3 API) or something else. If I will need to extract the full backup, it will cost me $4 ($0.01 * 400). Price is very different, but with 400GB you might end up spending from $5 to $10, or more per month. One of the options was to go with some VPS and rsync 4 classic setup.Įach cloud provider has a cost for bandwidth, storage and compute.

I’ve wanted something simple, cheap, secure which I can execute in the terminal and it would just work.

Self-hosted instance of Nextcloud 3 as a main source of storageĪnd the time came to introduce cloud backup.

When I was young I had not a pleasant experience of losing hard drive and all family photos, videos, etc…Īfter this, I’m a little bit paranoid about where such information should be stored and how it should be backed up.Ĭurrently, my storage environment looks as follows: I already had two pieces of the formula (3 copies, 2 of them on different external hard drives). There should be at least 3 copies of the data, stored on 2 different types of storage media, and one copy should be kept offsite, in a remote location (this can include cloud storage). There is a 3-2-1 backup rule 2 which is nice to follow: When you work more and more in IT you understand the importance of a good level of redundancy.Įverything breaks at some point (accidentally or on purpose), you need to have backups. It took some time to tune all the parameters of the Rclone 1 to successfully create an initial backup (around 400GB) and keep the network alive. I’m living in a place with not the fastest internet download/upload (39/12 Mbps) speeds.

Some time ago I concluded that it would be nice to have an offsite copy of the important data if something will go completely wrong.

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