So before I begin storing files, I need to create a bucket.īuckets are excellent organization tools, which work like a virtual container they can hold files and folders. Signing up is a breeze all it requires is an email address and a secure password.ī2 is an IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) cloud-based storage. Ease of useīackblaze B2 cloud storage is relatively easy to use. Somehow that just doesn’t seem right to me.This Backblaze B2 review covers its main features, plus extras and pricing plans. Now 15 bucks isn’t a lot, but as the repo grows so will this bandwidth usage and eventually I will probably be paying multiples of that just for running backups ( besides the actual storage cost). Now here comes the fun: for the past month they charged me $13.59 for bandwidth, at 1 cent per GB that means restic downloaded well over a terabyte just for running backups. My retention is set to -keep-daily 60 and this comes out to 13.252 GiB, so that’s maybe a few 100 MB churn per day. All my backups are tagged, so I can just run restic stats -mode raw-data -tag backup_mysql to get the total size used by just these dumps. Today I only ran one backup, for mysqldump'ing a bunch of databases. My current usage for today is $0.24 (25 GB), according to their billing panel (I think it’s just 1 cent/GB). My problem lies with the Download Bandwidth they charge you for. I have about 5.5 TB of actual data so the bucket size seems about right. File Lifecycle: Keep only the last version.Some stats straight from the Backblaze panel: Maybe I just figured it wrong, but after running backups on a regular schedule my B2 costs are quite a bit higher than I expected.
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