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A comment on Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook. Parent comment

Re:Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 bucke... by nvarsj on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:10AM (#26538385)
It's more of the fact that S3 is expensive for storing lots of data, isn't it? I think tarsnap charges only a small margin on top of S3.
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Re:Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 bucke... by floatboth on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:35AM (#26538555)
And tarsnap possibly uses the most expensive tier of S3:

> the original version, which can survive the loss of 2 datacenters, not the "reduced redundancy" version which can only survive the loss of a single datacenter

These days, there's not just reduced redundancy, but also infrequent access, which seems better for backups…

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