Off-site Storage Location

[u/ericlindellnyc]

I have to back up maybe 10 TB of data, and some of it involves researching people who don't want to be researched. I have a couple friends storing a drive for me, but I need something that doesn't depend on another person. I've priced regular storage bins, safe deposit boxes, and the cloud, but they're either too expensive or require a minimum balance or renter's insurance. Any other ideas?

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[u/bryantech → u/[deleted]]

Actually not a bad idea.

[u/privatejerkov]

Backblaze personal backup

[u/StevenG2757]

Store it at work in your desk.

[u/mikef5410 → u/StevenG2757]

That's what I did till I retired. Now I use a combo of my daughter's office and jottacloud

[u/MastusAR]

Well, if you need it to be not-dependent of other people, that kind of rules out the cloud and storage bins?

If it's truly "only you", I guess you could check local(-ish) property auctions? But that is probably expensive and easily traceable back to you.

[u/AhEmWe]

The thing most people underestimate with off-site storage is the access pattern change. Local storage is low-latency, high-throughput. Off-site means you now care about WAN bandwidth, latency, and what happens when two sites need the same file at the same time. A standard rsync or robocopy job handles periodic sync, but the moment remote users need live access to the same dataset, you need a strategy for conflict resolution and cache coherency.

If your use case is archival-only (write once, read rarely), cold cloud storage or even shipped HDDs are cheapest. If you need ongoing reads from the remote site, look at solutions that keep a local cache and sync deltas. The hidden cost is always egress and the time to do a full restore - budget both before committing to a specific model.

[u/kajin41]

I use aws deep glacier as my off site backup. Costs about $1/tb/mo to store. The only catch is restoring files takes several hours and will cost you per request and per gb restored. So great as a cheap off site backup if you restore sparingly. Your choice on encryption though seems like you should encrypt before uploading.

[u/Kinky_No_Bit]

Researching people who don't want to be researched - LTO tape drive / Encrypted 10TB hard drive with hardware encryption.