Re: Inherited an 18TB DB & need to backup

> On May 15, 2020, at 12:01, Scottix  wrote:
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> Also when you get in the multi TB data storage the bill gets a little harder to digest in S3.

Indeed.  Right now, just buying off of Amazon, a 12TB Seagate IronWolf drive is $0.03/GB.  S3 infrequent access is $0.0125/GB/month, so the drive pays for itself (storage only) in 2.4 months.  Even with an annualized failure rate of 1.4% (per Backblaze), and with the required host, rack, etc., etc., it be significantly more economical to run your own backup server.  If you regularly do restores off of the backups (for example, to prime staging environments or developer systems), the outbound transfer can add up fast, too.
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