{"id":18475,"date":"2017-07-27T14:31:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T18:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18475"},"modified":"2018-08-03T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T13:57:00","slug":"arq-5-9-adds-backblaze-b2-and-wasabi-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/27\/arq-5-9-adds-backblaze-b2-and-wasabi-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Arq 5.9 Adds Backblaze B2 and Wasabi Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arqbackup.com\/blog\/arq-backs-up-to-b2\/\">Stefan Reitshamer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.arqbackup.com\/blog\/arq-backs-up-to-b2\/\">\n<p>Now you can back up with Arq to Backblaze&rsquo;s B2 storage! It&rsquo;s a super-cheap option ($.005\/GB per month) for storing your backups.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This compares with $0.0125 for Amazon S3 Infrequent, $0.004 for Amazon Glacier, and $0.007 for Google Coldline. <a href=\"https:\/\/wasabi.com\/pricing\/\">Wasabi<\/a>, which is new to me, charges $0.0039.<\/p>\n<p>An under-appreciated Arq feature is that it also supports directly connected hard drives. This makes it a good accompaniment to clones (which lack versioning and are space-inefficient) or Time Machine (which tends to corrupt itself).<\/p>\n<p>I now back up only the most important files and most recently added photos to the cloud. I found that for big restores I always wanted to use local backups, anyway. Reducing the size of the cloud backup set makes it more likely that the files will be backed up promptly. New files aren&rsquo;t waiting for old ones (which already exist on local backups) to upload, and backups aren&rsquo;t halted for as long when Arq does its maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/21\/b2-cloud-storage\/\">B2 Cloud Storage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2018-08-03): It looks like Wasabi has increased its price to $0.0049.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan Reitshamer: Now you can back up with Arq to Backblaze&rsquo;s B2 storage! It&rsquo;s a super-cheap option ($.005\/GB per month) for storing your backups. This compares with $0.0125 for Amazon S3 Infrequent, $0.004 for Amazon Glacier, and $0.007 for Google Coldline. Wasabi, which is new to me, charges $0.0039. An under-appreciated Arq feature is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-08-03T13:57:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"d51dcd1c-4ff6-44f8-ae9c-cfcde5ac1059","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-08-03T13:57:04Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A1R3NHE_2RPiunM_N5awQWQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20,21,672,203,534,146,30,32,1381,216,1546],"class_list":["post-18475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-glacier","tag-s3","tag-amazon-web-services","tag-arq","tag-backblaze","tag-backup","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-12","tag-timemachine","tag-wasabi"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22355,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18475\/revisions\/22355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}