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Too expensive given the app.

S3/Google give around 2 cents/GB a month (lower for cold storage) but you also get to access it through the web... what's the benefit with this?




https://rsync.net/resources/howto/snapshots.html

You get 7 free snapshots that do not count against your quota.

Additional snapshots are charged based on the byte diffs, not total size.

It uses a standard protocol and anything that uses ssh can conceivably communicate with it.

Oh, and you are not charged for transfer.


How is this sort of thing not abused?

Say I generate logs at say 1 GB/hr and store them in files named `logs.$(date +%Y%m%dT%H)` and I have it set up to take snapshots every 4 hours and delete files older than 5 hours, then I could have essentially unlimited storage and only ever pay for 5 GB/month?


you only get 7 free snapshots, and if the others are totally different then your live data, you'll pay for them.


Ok, I had understood it as 7 free snapshots per day.


> Oh, and you are not charged for transfer.

This is the big one. Even for backblaze b2, it's the transfer that means 2-3tb data doesn't make sense on a personal budget (eg digital negatives and a few 4k videos). A restore become (too) expensive.


Nice. Interesting option.




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