> Now that I've got a serious Internet connection, if I was starting over, and didn't have the sunk costs of the LTO-4 tape drive system (drive, SAS controller, fast disk to feed it) and plenty of tapes, I'd probably do this level of backup to the cloud at a fairly raw level to S3, Glacier, GCS, or Backblaze.
Personal warning to anyone else attempting to create a multi-drive setup with Backblaze. Backblaze deletes external drive backups if you don't sync them every 30 days [1]. I've lodged frustrated complaints with them over data loss but that is their current policy.
Errr, I mean their new low cost raw storage B2 Cloud Storage (now 0.001 cent/month more than Glacier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13010949), not their total solutions for those not wanting to go to that sort of trouble/complexity/whatever.
(As someone who's been using tape drive backups since 1978, DECtape to start with, fortunately before I learned the -rf flags for rm ^_^, I'm not a conventional user.)
Personal warning to anyone else attempting to create a multi-drive setup with Backblaze. Backblaze deletes external drive backups if you don't sync them every 30 days [1]. I've lodged frustrated complaints with them over data loss but that is their current policy.
[1]: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217664898-What-...