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Backblaze b2 cost6/30/2023 ![]() Somehow that just doesn’t seem right to me. Now 15 bucks isn’t a lot, but as the repo grows so will this bandwidth usage and eventually I will probably be paying multiples of that just for running backups ( besides the actual storage cost). Now here comes the fun: for the past month they charged me $13.59 for bandwidth, at 1 cent per GB that means restic downloaded well over a terabyte just for running backups. My retention is set to -keep-daily 60 and this comes out to 13.252 GiB, so that’s maybe a few 100 MB churn per day. ![]() All my backups are tagged, so I can just run restic stats -mode raw-data -tag backup_mysql to get the total size used by just these dumps. Much of the data may lack value yet is taking up costly. ![]() Today I only ran one backup, for mysqldump'ing a bunch of databases. After many lifecycles of backups and migration journeys, theyre often left with massive data swamps. My current usage for today is $0.24 (25 GB), according to their billing panel (I think it’s just 1 cent/GB). My problem lies with the Download Bandwidth they charge you for. I have about 5.5 TB of actual data so the bucket size seems about right. File Lifecycle: Keep only the last version.Some stats straight from the Backblaze panel: Maybe I just figured it wrong, but after running backups on a regular schedule my B2 costs are quite a bit higher than I expected.
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