Hello, currently I’m testing Backblaze B2 as my second storage option. B2 mentions, that the downloads can be free, if using their CDN. Someone knows how to do that easily? I would like to test it, so I know it’s working, in case I need to restore.
I’m using the webgui version of Duplicacy.
Thanks!
They don’t have a CDN. But transfers between members of a bandwidth alliance is free B2/Cloudflare Partnership Offers the Lowest Cost Media Serving Platform. So you can egress to cloudflare for free. How much does it cost you to egress from cloudflare — depends on your relationship with cloudflare.
Have a look at these resources:
Please review Service-Specific Terms - Cloudflare, as downloading backups like this will likely be violating terms of service of a CDN.
Backblaze B2 egress cost is rather low, especially multiplied by the probability of needing full restore; so I would just pay it as needed.
Thanks for the explanation. I will need to go through the articles if I have some minutes. But sounds it will not work out of the box, like I thought.
Anyway, you’re right, the price is not really high. I will download it once to test if a restore would work. After this, I basically will trust the service.
You don’t really need to download the whole thing — just a few files selectively, and ideally on a new [virtual] machine, mostly to ensure that you have all the necessary keys, passwords, accounts, available somewhere other than on the machine you are trying to restore data for.