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Re:Backblaze is now a Terraform provider by nikisweeting on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:48PM (#26427510)
I love B2's free ingress and egress when you use CloudFlare, they utterly destroy the competition on price.

But my true dream would be for backblaze to someday offer ZFS as a service.

I want to `zfs send -i my_pool@2020-03-11 | b2zfs recv some_bucket_id`, then be able to view my snapshots and files within in the backblaze web UI, and restore with `b2zfs send -i some_bucket_id/my_pool@2020-03-11 | zfs recv my_pool`.

You can already mount B2 as a FUSE filesystem with something like ExpanDrive, then write ZFS raw file vdevs to the B2 FUSE mount, but it's horrifically slow and probably too janky for any real use.

Re:Backblaze is now a Terraform provider by ptomato on Thursday March 11, 2021 @02:01PM (#26427660)
rsync.net's zfs as a service is really great for that, though a bit more expensive than b2 is.
Re:Backblaze is now a Terraform provider by bpye on Thursday March 11, 2021 @02:22PM (#26427896)
Rsync.net looks great but the storage cost is 5x B2 unfortunately

EDIT: As mentioned below this is for the most expensive (lowest capacity) tier. I’d been comparing for my own home use and so I would be unlikely to exceed 10TB but if you’re looking at higher capacity then maybe the calculus is different.

Re:Backblaze is now a Terraform provider by rsync on Thursday March 11, 2021 @02:41PM (#26428117)
... for small quantities, yes.

For large quantities, it is 3x, and actually less since there are no charges for ingress/egress.

Further questions/comments over email, please, since this is BBs HN thread and I don't want to butt in.

Re:Backblaze is now a Terraform provider by mhio on Thursday March 11, 2021 @06:07PM (#26430183)
Without b2 adding anything zfs specific, that should be possible with a regular large file upload if you can deal with each upload part being buffered in a file/memory locally before upload.
Re:Backblaze is now a Terraform provider by kgog on Thursday March 11, 2021 @05:07PM (#26429624)
maybe you need borg with borgbase.