Although Arq appears to be a smaller company than Backblaze or IDrive, support was just as quick to respond to our questions its documentation, however, isn’t as thorough, searchable, or readable without a glossary. But Arq Premium doesn’t support continuous backups, instead relying on scheduled backups, so there’s always a chance it won’t be perfectly up to date. Its restoration process is far less cumbersome than Backblaze’s and speedier than IDrive’s, too. During setup, Arq Premium encourages (but doesn’t require) you to use a private encryption key for a secure backup. The Arq Premium software gives you a lot of control over how your backup works, including options to choose how long to keep files around, to select any external drives, and more. Arq Premium supports up to five computers, and if you need more than the included 1 TB of storage, it’s an additional $0.00599 per gigabyte each month (which amounts to about $6 per terabyte each month, making it more expensive than Backblaze and IDrive for data hoarders). Somehow that just doesn’t seem right to me.If you like to configure software to meet your specific needs, Arq Premium, available for Windows and Mac, offers far more customization options than Backblaze or IDrive and costs less than both for 1 TB of storage. 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. Today I only ran one backup, for mysqldump'ing a bunch of databases.
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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