Someone on Lemmy posted a phrase recently: "If you're not prepared to manage backups then you're not prepared to self host."
This seems like not only sound advice but a crucial attitude. My backup plans have been fairly sporadic as I've been entering into the world of self hosting. I'm now at a point where I have enough useful software and content that losing my hard drive would be a serious bummer. All of my most valuable content is backed up in one way or another, but it's time for me to get serious.
I'm currently running an Ubuntu Server with a number of Docker containers, and lots of audio, video, and documents. I'd like to be able to back up everything to a reliable cloud service. I currently have a subscription to proton drive, which is a nice padding to have, but which I knew from the start would not be really adequate. Especially since there is no native Linux proton drive capability.
I've read good things about iDrive, S3, and Backblaze. Which one do you use? Would you recommend it? What makes your short list? what is the best value?
I use iDrive, 20TB for a couple hundred bucks a year. I've not found anything that compares to that in pricing. Backblaze I think it's about $1600 a year for the same storage and the major cloud providers are much higher than that. I view cloud backups as the the last line of defense in the backup strategy. So all the nice features that most providers offer at a significant price increase just don't make sense to me as I won't use them. I have the iDrive Linux app running it detects what's new in the monitored directories and shoves them up to the cloud hopefully to never be needed.