Immutable Backup for a Small Business: What the 3-2-1-1-0 Rule Costs at 1 TB, 10 TB and 50 TB

A locked copy that ransomware cannot delete is the cheap part of a modern backup plan, unless you pick the wrong storage. Monthly bills for… Aliteq 0xLax · Founder · Cloud & Infrastructure

Under our model (30 daily and 12 monthly restore points, 3% daily change), an immutable cloud copy of 1 TB costs $15.50 a month on Backblaze B2 and $52.52 on AWS S3. At 10 TB it is $154.99 on B2…

3-2-1-1-0: Veeam's extension of 3-2-1 with one immutable or air-gapped copy and zero recovery errors

Cheapest with Object Lock: Backblaze B2 ($6.95 per TB) and Hetzner Object Storage, within about $9 of each other at 50 TB

Wasabi: $7.99 per TB, but a 90-day minimum means deleted data keeps billing

S3 Standard: 3.4x the B2 bill at 50 TB, plus $0.09 per GB to get it back

Software: restic, Kopia and Duplicati are free; Veeam Data Platform Essentials is $475 a year per five workloads

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