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Re:Hard Drive Stats for 2019 by newscracker on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @01:20PM (#22300970)
Slightly off topic: is anyone using B2 (which seems cheaper if you have more than one computer for a certain amount of data) for personal data backups with strong client side encryption across multiple platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows)? If so, how do you handle it?
Re:Hard Drive Stats for 2019 by S3raph on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @03:52PM (#22302698)
I sync all my device files to a local Freenas server which runs duplicacy in a jail and sync's it every night to backblaze B2. I looked at duplicity, restic, attic, borg and in the end settled for duplicacy. Pay attention to the duplicacy license, for somebody it could be a problem.
Re:Hard Drive Stats for 2019 by w33ble on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @02:59PM (#22302163)
I do this, though not from Windows, just Mac and Linux. I use restic, which has B2 support smd handles all the encryption. it also does diffing for backups. There's a Windows build, so I assume it would work for you there as well.

You can view and download builds at https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/

I don't automate this though, I just use it for occasional backups. Not sure what the automation story around restic is.

Re:Hard Drive Stats for 2019 by seanlane on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @06:04PM (#22303930)
Similar to the other two sibling comments, been using restic to sync to B2 over the past 6-7 months. Stored amount has been 450-475 GB, and total costs tend to be about $2.50-$2.75 per month.
Re:Hard Drive Stats for 2019 by hashhar on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @03:40PM (#22302589)
Yes. I use restic same as the sibling comment.

Have >8TB of data from multiple machines with a lot of deduplication (source is somewhere around 10 to 12TB).

Re:Hard Drive Stats for 2019 by orhanhh on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @05:07PM (#22303443)
I use Arq on two macs and it works very well with B2.
Re:Hard Drive Stats for 2019 by zippergz on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @07:35PM (#22304562)
I use and like Arq also, but the OP asked for something that covers Linux, which I believe Arq does not.