![]() And if I never did do a restore, I'd save $76 over the course of those two years. $80 / $3.20 means I could do a full restore once every two years and break even compared to B2. It would cost an extra $80 to restore out of Glacier, but be $3.20 cheaper per month for storage. It's purely my disaster recovery fallback. And with my local backup and the fact the Google truly is super reliable despite me being paranoid, I haven't ever had to restore a single photo or video from B2 yet. But a restore from Glacier would be $90.ĭo I expect to need to get all that data out very often? If ever? Hopefully not. However, assuming I'm doing Amazon's complicated pricing math correctly, in the event of a full recovery, getting all of my data out of B2 would be $10. Glacier Deep Archive would be $1.80/month just for the storage. Just specifically talking about my photos/videos (not my actual computer backups which I do use Arq for).ī2 currently costs me $5/month. I've looked into Glacier previously, but stick with B2 for a few reasons. ![]() ![]() And then I thought my answer might be interesting to others as well. I started to reply directly, but then like everything I write, it kept growing. Nice article on photos backup! Have you considered amazon S3 glacier instead of B2? It should be cheaper and work with Arq, can I ask why you prefer B2? A reader sent me the following question this morning: This is a quick followup to my post from this week about backing up my family's photos and home videos with Google Photos and B2.
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