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Re:Backblaze cuts B2 download price in half by AdmiralAsshat on Friday March 09, 2018 @03:16PM (#16554621)
You're right, the private data that I choose to preserve is objectively worthless. I shall relay your findings to my family.

"Sorry, Mom, I can't help you watch that Mork and Mindy collection on your bedroom-TV Roku. Someone On the Internet informed me that my digital collections are not worthy of keeping, and I dutifully deleted them."

"No, sweetie, we absolutely cannot share your childhood with our daughter and watch my digital rip of Fraggle Rock. Good parents delete their abhorrent digital media and pay HBO Go $15/month for the privilege of viewing it!"

"What are you thinking, keeping those hundreds of CD's and Vinyl's we ripped together on your iPhone, Dad? You can chuck all that crap that we actually own and pay a monthly fee to Spotify for the privilege of streaming it! Unless, of course, the publisher decides to pull their collection off of Spotify, for whatever reason."

"Hey, guys, now that we're all moved out of the house, we need to talk about the Nintendo 64. Mom and Dad bought it for all of us, so I think it's only fair that we keep the physical console at their place so that no one of us will have exclusive access to it. As for the games, I think each of us should be allowed to take the cartridges with us that we individually paid for and/or receives as gifts. So that'll be me taking Super Mario 64, Majora's Mask, Super Smash Bros, Star Fox 64, and NBA: Hangtime; Steve takes Goldeneye, Ocarina of Time, Perfect Dark, and Donkey Kong 64; and Fred takes Mario Party, Pokemon Stadium, Mario Kart, and Banjo Kazooie. Yeah, I know, I do wish there were some kind of legal backup method that might let us all enjoy the games we collectively owned. Oh well. Maybe Nintendo will release an N64 Classic and we can each pay $80 to play the games we already paid for. Assuming the games we own appear on the collection."

Re:Backblaze cuts B2 download price in half by derekp7 on Friday March 09, 2018 @04:14PM (#16555109)
I think the idea is that if it is possible / easy to re-obtain the media, then you don't need to back it up (i.e., if it was obtained via bittorrent).

A second classification is data that isn't changing -- you can create a couple backups of that media, store one in a bank safe deposit box, maybe ship another backup to a family member across the country.

Then you have recent acquisitions and ongoing projects -- those are what you would sync daily to an online backup service. So you still have offsite backup of everything, but by splitting up the categories, you end up not needing to sync that much online.

Re:Backblaze cuts B2 download price in half by BrazeBeefNoodle on Friday March 09, 2018 @04:19PM (#16555137)
Username checks out.