Introducing: The partnership between Packet and Backblaze The key to success: $0.00 transfer fees Let’s get into finding a cheaper solution. That pretty much describes the “challenge”. So, I would probably pay a little over $15 total for moving a mere 1.5TB of data - not exactly a steal. b2_list_file_names, cost: $0.004 per 1,000 with 2,500 free per day) using a tool such as rclone. b2_get_file_info, cost: $0.004 per 10,000 with 2,500 free per day) and Class C transactions (e.g. The upload itself (as a Class A transaction) is free, but you might use up a few Class B transactions (e.g. For my 1.5TB, the download would cost me about $15 (1500GB * $0.01/GB). Finally, you will have to pay for both the download and some upload-related transfers. Furthermore, this will use much if not all of your data volume if you are using a metered connection.

In my case it would take me several days to down- and upload the data on a 100 Mbit/s down/30 Mbit/s up connection. This has a couple of downsides: Most notably, the move might take a “while”, depending on the amount of data and your connection.

Thus, rather than simply telling Backblaze’s servers to move the folder from A to B, you need to move by downloading the data from A and re-uploading it to B. Sounds like a now-brainer, but B2 does not (yet) have a “server side copy”-/”server side move”-feature. In order to simplify some of by backup efforts, I recently had to move just over 1.5TB of data on Backblaze B2. No more need to set up a Packet instance to do it. Most tools that support B2 have already added support for the new feature as well, so copying/moving data on B2 has become rather simple. Details can be found in this post on their blog. Backblaze officially added a “server side copy”-feature to their B2 service in August of 2019.

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