Right now, I have around 20TB of data in redundant ZFS mirrors, so I am somewhat protected against any single drive failing. Critical data is backed up at various cloud providers, but that’s only a few gigs of all my data.
Looking at S3 pricing, It seems rather unfeasible to back up my data there or on the other “big” cloud providers, as it would cost me around $180 with AWS or half of that with backblaze.
How and where do you guys back up your data?
How about good old offsite HDDs, tapes, etc. I guess it depends on the target. If it’s family photos, you probably want something like this – after all, if you get hit by a bus and stop paying the hosting bill for a couple of months, all that stuff could be gone.
Variations on the scheme include rotating media into safe deposit boxes at a bank, etc.