My Bitwarden renewal came through this morning. It’s still $10 per year. I was about to cancel, but I thought what the heck at $10, I’ll keep it on out of principle and to show support.
I also have a tutanota encrypted email, which costs little more than pocket change over the year. I hardly use it, but it’s there.
I wondered then, if this community had any little gems to share - services they pay for that are let’s say under $30 annually. I think we can exclude VPS, since lots of people will probably have them already.
I’m going to cross post at /r/opensource too.
Hertzner storage box for backups 1tb cheap as chips Daily backups from proxmox
Any other cheaper options? Not looking for a tb. Even 100gb is good with me.
I recently got myself a storage box, too. If I’m not mistaken, there’s no smaller option than 1 GB.
Backblaze is great and transparent
Blackblaze B2 costs me pennies using 50GB of storage. $0.18 last month
Scaleway offer up to 75GB of their Object Storage for free and only start charging when you go over.
That’s traffic not storage.
Damn ok that’s cheap, even for a small business this looks like a great option for off-site backups.
Is there a service like this in the USA?
Do you encrypt the backups? I’m interested in learning more about this process.
If you are sending any of your data from your home lab to an outside server that you personally do not control then yes, you should ALWAYS encrypt the backups (unless it’s crap you don’t care about like your tax returns, credit card details, passwords, etc.)
How do you I encrypt the files before copying them to a remote server/storage?
Some backup services have an option for it, like Duplicati. Rclone also has it but requires a lil setup I think.
Restic is great for that, deduplication and snapshots as well
Use a good backup system like Borgbackup (with Borgmatic to automate it).
Good backup software will have this ability built in - such as duplicati for instance.
Have you tried restoring from it? I’ve read about pretty gnarly situations where they have corrupted the data and even lost it (raid failed)