Thanks for that suggestion to look at Rclone. I'll give it a whirl with Google Drive since I already have an account and see how it goes.
Regards Chris Wilkinson On Tue, 28 Dec 2021, 10:56 pm Heitor Faria, <hei...@bacula.com.br> wrote: > Hello Chris, > > I've seen several users have implemented AWS for backup storage. Whilst > looking at other options, I came across Expandrive ( > https://www.expandrive.com/server/). This appears to be a wrapper around > multiple cloud storage suppliers such as Dropbox, Google Drive and others > that can't be used directly as mounted drives. > > I wanted to ask the list if anyone has implemented this and what their > experience has been. > > On the face of it, it seems attractive at approx $15/m for 5Tb backend > storage plus the Expandrive $25/y single user subscription and allowing to > retire a bank of local drives. Granted this would not work for someone on > standard broadband but fibre should be fine. > > Regards > Chris Wilkinson > > This is not a new technique. The Linux fuse library has been able to mount > S3 buckets for a long time right now. Rclone can also do the same stuff you > are proposing (GDrive, Dropbox) for free. > They all should work with Bacula, but I don't think they are an optimal > solution for an array of reasons. > I deployed a few environments with the Bacula S3 Cloud Driver ( > https://www.bacula.lat/enterprise-bacula-s3-swift-ceph-and-cloud-storage-driver-quick-guide/?lang=en) > and Wasabi, which does not charge per egress data and charges only 5.99 USD > per TB/m. The driver is available with the www.bacula.org installation > packages. > For some reason, however, I could only achieve about 2 MB/s maximum upload > transfer rate per part. Then I had to use a greater number of > MaximumConcurrentUploads (and Downloads) - e.g. 20. > Eventually I was able to reach speeds close to 40 MB/s, that were suitable > for the workload. > > Rgds. > -- > > MSc Heitor Faria (Miami/USA) > Bacula LATAM CIO > mobile1: + 1 909 655-8971 > mobile2: + 55 61 98268-4220 > [image: linkedin icon] > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/msc-heitor-faria-5ba51b3> > [image: logo] <Http://www.bacula.com.br> > América Latina > bacula.lat | bacula.com.br <http://www.bacula.com.br> > >
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