Does s3cmd offer similar functionality? Maybe? I've never looked to see if it does syncing. But, thankfully, I'm very fortunate that an extra $3/month doesn't bother me enough to invest the time into migrating and figuring out an alternative to B2's easy to use command line sync tool. So now that I'm doing the math again, maybe Glacier is something to look into long-term as my storage needs keep rising. 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.

B2 storage pricing