Their generous daily allowances on free transactions and downloads mean one less thing to worry about.The pricing model is also very simple: one flat rate per GB stored, per GB downloaded and per 1000 actions.

It’s really cheap - just $0.005 per GB at the time of writing, with your first 10GB free.

You could use any of the other systems that Rclone supports, but I’d recommend B2 for a couple of reasons:

We’ll be syncing local files to Backblaze B2, but as of May 2020 it can also handle nearly 50 storage systems including Wasabi, Amazon S3, Digital Ocean Spaces, Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage.įinally, Backblaze B2 will be our cloud storage provider for this guide. Rclone is another brilliant bit of open source magic that allows you to sync almost anything to almost anything else with no fuss. On top of that it also handles encrypting your files and compressing them, making it an ideal tool for managing backups that will be synced to a cloud storage system. This wonderful piece of open source goodness will split your backed up files into chunks and only store the ones that are different, so you can run backups as often as you like without worrying about wasting space with hundreds of copies of your files. We’re using Borg in this guide because it is, simply put, freaking awesome.

Backblaze B2 for super-cheap and reliable cloud storage.

Rclone to sync your backups to the cloud.

BorgBackup (Borg for short) to create, deduplicate, compress and encrypt our backups.

For me it was a mix of everything, but mostly I wanted to know exactly what was happening when I backed up something important.

B2 storage