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Re:Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B by rsync on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:00PM (#21706898)
"Who's still left in the home backup solution ring? Besides iCloud/Google Drive/Dropbox, I count...Backblaze? And that's it? "

If you are a unix user and/or reasonably technical, I think rsync.net would be the best choice.

You get an empty ZFS filesystem, possibly with snapshots enabled, that you can do whatever you like with (provided "whatever you like" is something that runs over SSH...).

Pointing borg/rclone/restic/git-annex/etc. to rsync.net works exactly the way you'd think it would.

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Re:Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B by AdmiralAsshat on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:54PM (#21707589)
Looking at rsync.net's pricing system, I calculate that backing up 1TB of data would run about $25/mth. Do you consider that competitive for a home user just trying to backup his photos? I have considerably more--4TB, to be exact, so that seems really untenable to me.
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Re:Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B by tardo99 on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:29PM (#21707923)
2TB of google drive is $9.99 a month. What am I missing?
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Re:Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B by rikkus on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @06:03PM (#21708144)
Google Drive isn't a backup system.
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Re:Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B by secabeen on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:54PM (#21708074)
iDrive: $100/yr ($8.30/mo) for 5TB.
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Re:Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B by matwood on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:58PM (#21708106)
If it’s only photos and you’re a prime member, Amazon has unlimited space. I use them as a cold archive and copy my photos there each year.
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Re:Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B by michaelcampbell on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:18PM (#21707821)
I use restic with Backblaze/B2. There's also hashbackup.

SpiderOak is another venture in the commercial space.

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