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I use arq & amazon cloud drive unlimited for $60/year for about 1TB. I also have a local NAS as the 'on-site' backup destination.

I would like to use borg backup, but it isn't as flexible as arq.

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Wait a minute, is Amazon truly UNLIMITED? Even for encrypted files from ARQ? Mine currently is going to OneDrive, but that's limited to 1TB for $7 a month which includes office 365. There has not be some catch with Amazon here.

Amazon CloudDrive ToS forbids commercial use for one thing.

Well this is personal, not commercial.

Yeah amazon cloud drive is pretty popular on /r/DataHoarder/, quite a few people have 10TB+ on it, some even a lot more.

Personally I have close to 7TB of backups and personal video footage stored, everything encrypted, never had any issues.

However there's always the danger of them pulling a onedrive at some point in the future and reverting from unlimited back to something like 1TB if people actually use it.

There are people on that subreddit who have a lot more than 10TB and even someone recently who uploaded more than 1PB. Even considering Amazon's above average capability to store large amounts of data, I'm surprised that the individual hasn't had their account suspended.

I'm sure they will be if they ever try to retrieve it...

I guess the question is how does Google Drive compare with a business account. Since they offer unlimited drive space with five users. Hrmm.

What do you use for the encryption?

ARQ is pretty awesome, set and forget encryption with hourly,daily,weekly,monthly snaps. Connects to just about every possible cloud service.

Thanks very much, I always get the most useful answers on HN.

Have 2tb of mostly photos and home videos on Amazon cloud drive. Unencrypted. No issues, I heard of people with 3-4 times as much and not having issues. I assume these services have users with much less than 1tb with a fee outliers who use a lot of space making the unlimited service feasible as a marketing feature.

The issues start when you want to move to a competing service :)

It's unlimited yes, but ACD will cut you off if you start downloading a lot, I recall someone on /r/DateHoarder complaining that they wanted to restore their NAS and ACD Support was blocking any requests towards lifting the block.

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