I am looking for a Cloud Backup option for my TrueNAS server. I have seen options for Storj and Backblaze, but would love some kind of comparison.
I am looking for a solution to backup my server. I currently have about 12TB of data, but I could probably reduce that to 1-2TB if it made a big difference.
This would just be for catastrophic failure or data loss. So I plan to upgrade to TrueNAS Scale in the next month or so, and if that goes horribly wrong, I would wipe the pool and start over and want to restore from the cloud backup.
I know a lot of the pricing structure is based on how much you store, but how much data is going out as well. I would expect I won’t have much going out.
Versioning would be desirable as a protection against any kind of virus or ransomware.
Storj is a shady company IMHO that only survives on ICO and VC money.
While in theory their business model sounds interesting (using unused space),
it does not work out in reality, because their is stuff like satellites and gateways. In reality, even their poster boy partner TrueNAS did not implement native STORJ to get around expensive gateways, but just used plain old S3.
That is why in the last 5 years, prices for customers went up and payouts for nodes went down. Growth of the network was mostly fake test data. Now that the ICO money ran out, we see that despite their “faster and cheaper than Amazon S3” claims, nobody was convinced. Their total amount of all customer data is only 20TB, which could almost run in my garage, might even have better peering
Backblaze on the other hand made downloads 3x the data you store per month free.
So I would argue that chances of going STORJ bust are way higher than Backblaze. Prepare to move.
Other factors that are pro Backblaze:
Same price for storage, but free download while STORJ is 0.02$ per TB
More S3 compatible
Snapshots and Lifecycle rules for immutable backups
Storage Boxes offer storage capacity for both small and large amounts of data. Any data you save in your Storage Box is saved on several disks configured in a RAID array, increasing redundancy and fault tolerance. The disks are on a single host server. The data protection by RAID can tolerate several failed disks. In addition, checksums for the individual data blocks are used to detect and correct bit errors.
All snapshots are stored on your Storage Box in the directory /.zfs/snapshot or /home/.zfs/snapshot (if using SSH protocol on port 23). In this directory, there is a subfolder for each snapshot that maps the Storage Box at the time of the snapshot. You can download individual files or entire directories as usual. It is not possible to write to the /.zfs directory or its subfolder.
