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I've been considering paying for a European provider, mounting their service with rclone, and thus being transparent to most anything I host.

How do y'all backup your data?

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[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn, the last time I thought about this (20 years ago) I was able to buy a tape drive for a PC for like ........ I wanna say $250-300?? I forget the format, it was very very common though and tapes were dirt cheap, maybe $10-12 a pop. Worked great, if you were willing to sit around and swap tapes out as needed.

[–] vector_zero@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think the problem is that normal consumers wouldn't ever buy a tape drive, so the only options still being produced are enterprise grade. The tapes are still pretty cheap, but the drives are absurd.