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Why do this? Amazon is evil. Also S3 costs too much.
- Backblaze account. It’s free to start.
- Try rclone from S3 to my local machine and back up to Backblaze and find it way too slow. Also use up all my daily quota.
- Learn about Use Flexify.IO to Transfer Data from AWS S3 to Backblaze B2.
- Create Flexify.IO account
- Set up Data endpoints
- S3 bucket sources
- Backblaze sinks
- Initiate first migration
- Immediately get account “suspended” because I haven’t given them any money.
- Put $10 in my account
- Complete first migration: backups on S3 to backups on B2. 2:48 for 77.8 GiB (14,071 objects)
- Migrate media (hit a weird object permission issue but ¯\(ツ)/¯). 4.73 GiB (919 objects) in 58 seconds
- Ongoing: Watch and wait for a few weeks
TODO: delete S3 buckets
How to Leave AWS: Backblaze S3 Compatible APIs & Free Cloud to Cloud Migration
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