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For the OP - be careful with AWS, the closest pricing to one dollar per terabyte is S3 Glacier Deep Archive and you'd be surprised how expensive a full restore can be in the event that you need to do so in terms of restore pricing, egress cost, etc.

Another NAS isn't really a good solution (unless you can place it in a different house) - the goal of a cloud back up is that it's offsite.



While true that it is something to be wary of, if you restore the entire backup at full cost every two years it's still cheaper than B2.

The egress is only super high when you compare to how cheap $1 per month is.

And I bet you can find somewhere offsite for a NAS for free or a tiny fraction of $150/month.


I use Glacier alongside RAID with 4 drives so that I can recover from any single drive failure (which will happen) just by swapping in a new drive.

Had this setup ~10 years and have had to replace a drive on two occasions but never needed to restore from Glacier.

At this point even if I do need to do a Glacier restore one day it’s still going to work out to be pretty economical.




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