STILL A WIP

TL;DR

The main takeaway from this is that if your research data is made up of many millions of small files inside of millions of directories, then between the expense and complexity of backing it up to a cloud provider, you may be better off keeping your data on Engram, and letting Research Computing handle the backups.

All-in-one providers

Backblaze and , Spider Oak both , MEGA, and Crashplan all have backup services designed to back up a single machine or small group of machines, rather than multiple terabytes of scientific data. That includes the backup software and the cloud storage costs bundled into a single fee. Backblaze is only for Windows and Mac, While Spider Oak also supports Linux. The both all list prices at the above links. Read the fine print, as neither is none are designed to handle the needs of a lab, and while they may be able to handle you, pricing will most likely be higher.

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