Re: Telegard
  By: Jas Hud to Sean Dennis on Sun Apr 17 2022 06:42 am

 >   To: Sean Dennis
 >   Re: Telegard
 >   By: Sean Dennis to Jas Hud on Sat Apr 16 2022 09:13 pm
 > 
 >  > Using s3cmd is quite easy.  Tape backups are easy also due to a plethora 
 >  > great backup software available under Linux though I could just as easily
 >  > use tar to do it (after all, tar stands for "Tape ARchiver".  For me, it
 >  > not complicated.  It's just not having the money to pay for space.
 > 
 >  > -- Sean
 > 
 > 
 > you dont need to pay for a lot of space if you dont back up the entire plane
 > just back up what you need, delete old backups.
 > 
 > the point is that you do it. a lot of people talk the talk, but don't walk t
 > walk.

BackBlaze used to offer unlimited storage plans for backups for all mainstream
Operating Systems but Linux.

The reason was quite interesting. BackBlaze actually had created  working
agents and clients for Linux which were known to work properly. However, market
analisys showed that a regular computer user didn't have many files to backup
at all, so your average Windowser would upload a bunch of files to his
unlimited storage and call it a day. Meanwhile,the average Linux user had more
than 1 TB of data on whis workstation and typically wanted to backup a whole
image of everything. Since the company started losing money after 1 Tb of
storage was used up, it was not profitable to keep Linux users in unlimited
tiers, which is the reason why Linux and BSD were supported only on business
plans.

My point is that we microchip heads tend to hoard big ammounts of data and want
to include most of it in our backup policies.

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