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There seem to be lots of options, I have a gitlab server and some other stuff like game servers i'd like to back up offsite, what are my options? 
I'm looking at about 15 gb per gitlab backup, so maybe a couple hundred gigs in total so i can store say, every monthly backup for a year? 

I've heard of people using stuff like google drive, and gitlab appears to have support in gitlab for automatic uploading to places like AWS.

I Wouldn't mind very slow upload / downloads, if that helps at all with price, I just want the cheapest possible option thats still reliable

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Gdrive is free, if you don't take into account the value of your data, but at least it's a start to actually have an offsite backup w/o spending much, while researching alternative options. Mind that at 15GB each, you'll be spending serious money for "in the cloud" storage.

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I've found that Backblaze is really good both from a personal and business offering perspective. I use it to backup my NAS with the business offering (Around 2TB backed up currently) and it runs me around $6/month give or take. Another option might be Crashplan but they were pretty terrible when I moved away from them about a year or so ago but worth checking into.

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TBH, with the amount of data you're saying you need to backup, it might be better to have a "personal drive" rather than off-site as such IMO... the only time that data would be of risk would be if you yourself leave the house without it. Something like a 500GB SSD with a USB caddy would do fine, or if you need smaller grab a good USB sd card reader and a 200-400GB micro-sd that you can attach to your keychain.

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