I have started my own journey into Backblaze storage

[AudioDoctor]

5 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

See if you can get CenturyLink. Unlimited 1Gbps up/down for $65 per month on this side of town :~)

 

I tried. Century Link was happy to take my money and set up an install date. Tech showed up at my house on time and said that he didn't understand why they scheduled the install, Century Link doesn't have fiber here on my street yet...

 

My Brother has unlimited, so we finished the upload from his end after I received the email from Comcast telling me I was about to exceed my bandwidth limit. If I could switch to either Century Link or USI, I would in a heartbeat. I have friends who live in Linden Hills and they adore USI Fiber.

 

[AudioDoctor]

1 hour ago, Jud said:

 

Anyone stuck on Comcast as I am: Upload at the end of one month and beginning of the next so you effectively double the limit.

 

Edit: Also, Comcast offers unlimited for an extra $30/month. They gave me a free one-month trial of the unlimited service (that is, no additional cost beyond the regular service). So that's another way around the monthly cap.

 

I am just morally opposed to giving them more money.

[AudioDoctor]

1 hour ago, actuel audio said:

This post is titled storage but, Backblaze is back up, not storage. The two should not be confused.

 

I suppose that's a point... It was never my intent to claim someone should store their music files for playback on Backblaze and I think most people here are intelligent enough to figure that out.

[AudioDoctor]

Comcast finally got me...  $120 bucks in overage charges...  Time to get Century Link on the phone and start talking to them about getting Fiber to my neighborhood...

 

I am sure that my messing around with backblaze and testing various methods of backing up are what caused this.

[AudioDoctor]

1 hour ago, Jud said:

 

Yeah, that's my biggest complaint about Comcast, the data cap. They let you blow through it one month, then start charging. $30 extra per month lifts the cap.

 

yep, this is also the month my promotion ended so my bill is MASSIVE at the moment... I am just fed up with Comcast to the point I am almost willing to pay to get Century Link to run fiber to my house.

[AudioDoctor]

32 minutes ago, Jud said:

 

Presume you've already talked to the customer retention people? Got my bill lowered by $20/month, though still have the cap....

 

Actually, not yet. I did talk to Century Link today to see if they managed to run fiber down my street yet. I will though. It used to be as easy as posting on the Comcast subreddit, but I think they did away with that.

[AudioDoctor]

On 1/27/2024 at 12:14 AM, Jud said:

 

Presume you've already talked to the customer retention people? Got my bill lowered by $20/month, though still have the cap....

 

Well Jud, I bit the bullet, talked to Comcast and got the unlimited date for one year for free, a reduced total, and more speed.

[AudioDoctor]

So, I have figured out how to get my Backblaze B2 buckets mounted locally on my Ubuntu desktop and can drag and drop, or use rsync, etc... to upload files, at the expense of the use of a whole lot of bandwidth. If you have a cap on your bandwidth usage, this is probably not the route you would want to take.

 

edit: To get the Backblaze B2 buckets mounted requires rclone be set up and functioning first.

[AudioDoctor]

I have discovered that it is likely the checksumming of the files that is causing my uploads to be both ultra slow and bandwidth intense as rsync needs to get every single file from the source, Backblaze, and check it against the local copy. I am reconsidering the checksumming, but haven't stopped doing it yet.

[AudioDoctor]

So I decided that the checksumming is something I will do infrequently as all my files are on a ZFS pool already, the only real reason to do so would be to verify that the files on BackBlaze's servers have not been compromised in any way. Additionally, it uses a LOT of bandwidth AND time downloading every file and generating a checksum to match to the files on the source.

 

 

@Rsmaximasr I am not on fiber and this is not a fast process, but it is a necessary one, imo. Once the files are up on Backblaze, the process is much easier as you only need to upload new files. That goes much faster than the entire library upload because there are fewer of them.

 

edit: All my files are on Multiple ZFS pools as well as BackBlaze servers. If a situation were to crop up where I was not confident a file backed up from Backblaze was not the same as when it was uploaded, I am confident I will have at least one copy that I can feel confident is correct.