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  • Some things you should determine first:

    1. Total amount of data you will be backing up
    2. Frequency of backups
    3. Number of copies to keep

    Plug these numbers into cost calculators for whatever cloud service you’re hoping to use, because this is honestly not going to be the cheapest route to store off-site if there are ingress charges like with S3.

    I know Cloudflare’s R2 service doesn’t charge for ingress or egress (for now), but you might be able to find something even cheaper if you’re only backing up certain types of data that can be easily compressed.

    I’d also investigate cheap ways to maybe just store an off-site drive with your data: office/work, family house, friends house…etc. Storage devices are way cheaper than monthly cloud costs.