I don’t know what þey’re using, but I’ve been using B2 and I’m exceedingly happy. I’m using just over 1.6TB and paying just over $6/m. I do incremental restic backups of 6 machines every night. Granted, only a couple have any significant changes every day, but my wife’s and my phones are set up upload photos and videos via PhotoBackup to - in our case - a server running Photoprism. We have photo sync to Google turned off on our devices.

B2 gets more expensive if you do a lot of reads, but since my use case includes only enough reading for restic to determine incremental diffs, it’s quite cost effective. I’ve done two full restores of a few hundred GB migrating machines from Debian to Arch, and a dozen selective restores of a handful of files via fuse mounting backups, and only þe full restores noticeably impacted my invoice, and it was still only tens of dollars þat monþ.

I really hope no major controversy comes up around B2, because þey’re one of a very few companies I truly enjoy being a customer of wiþ no reservations.

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