Linus Tech Tips Bypasses Google Drive Caps to Archive 370 TB for $70

Linus Tech Tips

Running parallel rclone transfers across multiple $10 G Suite accounts circumvents Google's 750-gigabyte daily upload ceiling, replacing enterprise cloud fees with an unmetered disaster-recovery pipeline.

AI-assisted summary of I Hope Google Doesn’t Ban Us... - Abusing Unlimited Google Drive — original source. Check the original for full context.

Source published: 2018-08-23

Key ideas

Linus Media Group faced a single point of failure with their 370 TB on-premises video archive, requiring an off-site backup pipeline that can also handle up to 2 TB of daily data accumulation. (0:00)
Physical disaster-recovery solutions were deemed cost-prohibitive, with duplicate 45Drives Storinator servers estimated at over $70,000 USD and enterprise LTO-8 tape libraries exceeding $20,000 USD upfront. (1:59)
Enterprise cloud options like AWS Glacier carried high monthly costs of up to $3,400 USD and punitive data restoration fees reaching roughly $12,000 USD for emergency expedited retrieval. (3:56)
The team bypassed Google Drive's hidden 750 GB daily upload cap per user by splitting rclone transfer instances across seven G Suite accounts, reaching 40-45 MB/s aggregate bandwidth for $70 per month with zero egress fees. (9:07)

Detailed notes

## Background Published on YouTube by Linus Tech Tips on August 23, 2018, this video covers Linus Media Group's search for an affordable off-site backup for their massive multi-hundred-terabyte video archive. The accompanying description highlights affiliate and sponsor links, including Ting mobile service, G Suite sign-ups, computer hardware, and an invitation to discuss the backup project on the LTT forums.

## TL;DR Facing the risk of losing over 370 terabytes of unbacked video archives to a catastrophic disaster, Linus Media Group evaluates physical off-site options like colocated Storinator servers and tape libraries, alongside enterprise cloud services like AWS Glacier. Finding enterprise solutions either too expensive in upfront hardware or cost-prohibitive due to recurring rates and data egress fees, they investigate G Suite Business's advertised unlimited storage plan. After hitting an enforced 750 GB daily upload cap per user account, the team devises a multi-account rclone workaround across seven accounts for $70 per month. This parallel pipeline enables sustained upload speeds of 40 to 45 MB/s with client-side encryption and zero download penalties, creating an ultra-cheap, if precariously unconventional, disaster recovery pipeline.

## Atmosphere & style The presentation blends self-aware engineering pragmatism with the playful, slightly rebellious thrill of discovering a consumer-facing loophole inside an enterprise product. Linus guides viewers through sober financial calculations and server architecture before shifting into conspiratorial amusement as he and Jake bypass Google's upload restrictions. The vibe is casual, tech-savvy, and punctuated by humorous off-the-cuff remarks, leaving the audience both impressed by the ingenuity and entertained by the anticipation that Google might eventually patch the exploit.

## Bulletin - [00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=0s) Linus Media Group faced a single point of failure with their 370 TB on-premises video archive, requiring an off-site backup pipeline that can also handle up to 2 TB of daily data accumulation. - [01:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=119s) Physical disaster-recovery solutions were deemed cost-prohibitive, with duplicate 45Drives Storinator servers estimated at over $70,000 USD and enterprise LTO-8 tape libraries exceeding $20,000 USD upfront. - [03:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=236s) Enterprise cloud options like AWS Glacier carried high monthly costs of up to $3,400 USD and punitive data restoration fees reaching roughly $12,000 USD for emergency expedited retrieval. - [09:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=547s) The team bypassed Google Drive's hidden 750 GB daily upload cap per user by splitting rclone transfer instances across seven G Suite accounts, reaching 40-45 MB/s aggregate bandwidth for $70 per month with zero egress fees.

## Key takeaways - [00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=0s) The Petabyte Project ran reliably for over a year, but entirely lacked off-site redundancy, risking total loss of unpublished assets and master footage in a disaster. - [00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=0s) Symmetric 1 Gbps fiber infrastructure was not enough on its own, as transferring 370 TB plus 2 TB of daily additions would still require months of continuous upload time. - [01:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=119s) Duplicating their hardware with two additional 60-bay 45Drives Storinators and enterprise hard drives would have cost over $70,000 USD in upfront capital expenditures. - [01:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=119s) An LTO-8 tape backup solution required dual enterprise tape libraries and hundreds of cartridges, resulting in a total upfront cost exceeding $20,000 USD. - [03:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=236s) AWS S3 Glacier would have cost between $1,500 and $3,400+ USD per month just to host the archive with basic support, before any data retrieval fees. - [03:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=236s) Disaster recovery data retrieval penalties from enterprise cloud providers ranged from $2,000 USD for slow tiers up to approximately $12,000 USD for high-speed restores. - [06:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=378s) G Suite Business offered advertised unlimited cloud storage for $10 per user per month as long as the organization had at least five registered user seats. - [06:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=378s) Indexing over one million files spanning more than 100 hard drives caused standard disk utility tools like WinDirStat to crash. - [06:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=378s) Google enforced an unadvertised throttle limiting each user account to 750 GB of uploads per 24 hours, followed by a 24-hour upload ban if exceeded. - [06:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=378s) A single G Suite account upload throttled to ~8 MB/s to avoid daily bans would take approximately two full years to finish backing up 370 TB. - [09:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=547s) Because the 750 GB limit is enforced per user rather than per domain, adding seats and running parallel rclone sessions multiplied ingestion throughput. - [09:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=547s) Configuring seven G Suite user accounts at $70 per month allowed an aggregate upload speed of 40 to 45 MB/s, uploading roughly 28 TB in a single week without bans. - [09:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=547s) Using rclone with Google Drive provides client-side encryption on upload and download, alongside free egress retrieval in the event of a disaster.

## Detailed walkthrough ### [00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=0s) The Petabyte Server’s Off-Site Vulnerability

Just over a year prior, Linus Media Group deployed a massive on-premises storage system dubbed the "Petabyte Project" to address their rapidly ballooning video archives. While the raw petabyte of archival capacity had functioned flawlessly without any hardware failures, Linus Sebastian highlights a looming single point of failure: the entire deployment completely lacks geographic redundancy. If a warehouse fire or another natural disaster were to strike their facility, Linus Media Group would permanently lose its entire back catalog—meaning every production asset, project file, and master recording that had not already been published directly to YouTube.

To solve this vulnerability, the team set out to design an off-site backup pipeline that could safeguard all 370 terabytes of currently accumulated video data, along with whatever ongoing footage they produce going forward. The core obstacle facing any remote transfer strategy is network bandwidth. Even with their symmetric 1 Gbps fiber internet connection, transmitting several hundred existing terabytes alongside incoming daily additions of up to two terabytes would take many months of continuous, uninterrupted upload time.

- Existing data on the archive server: approximately 370 TB - Daily data accumulation: up to 2 TB per day - Current local connection: symmetric 1 Gbps fiber

[01:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=119s) Evaluating Local Hardware and Tape Backup Options

Linus and Jake initially explored building an identical local storage system, filling it quickly across their 10 Gbps office network, and shipping it off-site to a data center. Their internet service provider already offered inexpensive server colocation space, making the recurring hosting cost very attractive. However, duplicating the Petabyte Project required purchasing two additional 60-bay 45Drives Storinator servers packed with enterprise hard drives. The upfront price tag for the chassis and drives was estimated at over $70,000 USD—which Linus quips borders on six figures once converted into "Canadian rubles."

Next, they examined tape storage as an alternative physical medium. Rack-mount enterprise tape libraries, such as those from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, retail between $5,000 and $7,000 USD, while high-capacity 12 TB LTO-8 tapes cost around $160 each. Storing over 500 TB of uncompressed data on tape seemed significantly more economical than hard drives at first glance. However, accounting for dual tape libraries and hundreds of tape cartridges still resulted in an immediate capital expenditure exceeding $20,000 USD. Linus summarizes the harsh reality of buying local disaster-recovery equipment: “So, hardware-based solutions are not looking too peachy.”

[03:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=236s) The Exorbitant Realities of Enterprise Cloud Storage

Turning away from local hardware, Linus and Jake reviewed traditional enterprise cloud storage providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), which viewers had repeatedly urged them to use when the Petabyte Project was originally conceived. Inspecting the AWS Glacier pricing calculator revealed astronomical operating figures. Backing up their current 370 TB footprint would cost approximately $1,500 to $1,667 per month once baseline support tiers were added. If they were to back up the system's full 760 TB usable capacity, the recurring fee soared to over $3,400 per month.

The ongoing storage rate was not the only hurdle; data retrieval fees proved equally punishing. In a total disaster scenario where the office burned down and the company had to pull the archive back down from AWS, the slowest retrieval tier cost an additional $2,000 USD. If they required urgent, high-speed access to get back up and running, the transfer bill spiked to roughly $12,000 USD. Noting that competitor pricing from Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Backblaze followed a similar pricing structure, Linus refused to commit tens of thousands of dollars a year to cloud archiving.

```mermaid flowchart TD accTitle: Disaster Recovery Bottlenecks and Cloud Retrieval Costs accDescr: Flowchart contrasting catastrophic loss at LMG against the financial penalty of retrieving cold cloud archives.

subgraph Catastrophe["Disaster Scenario"] LMG["LMG Facility Disaster / Fire"] --> Loss["Potential Loss of 370 TB Archive"] end

subgraph CloudRetrieval["AWS Glacier Data Pull"] Loss -.->|"Attempt Full Cloud Restore"| Retrieval{"Select Restore Speed"} Retrieval -->|"Standard / Slow Retrieval"| Cheap["+$2,000 USD Retrieval Fee"] Retrieval -->|"Expedited / Fast Download"| Expensive["+$12,000 USD Retrieval Fee"] end

subgraph MonthlyCost["Baseline Running Cost"] Run["Storage + Support Fee"] --> Bill["$1,667 - $3,400+ USD / Month"] end ```

[06:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=378s) Testing Google Drive and Discovering the Daily Cap

Searching for alternatives, Linus questioned whether Google still offered unlimited cloud storage under its business suite. The G Suite business pricing tier advertised "unlimited cloud storage" for $10 per user per month, provided the account had a minimum of five registered users (accounts with fewer than five users were capped at 1 TB per user). Paying $50 a month for five seats to acquire truly unlimited storage seemed absurdly cheap, prompting Jake to set up an enterprise account to test the waters.

To interface the on-premises array with the cloud, the team set up a Windows 10 virtual machine on their utility unRAID server and deployed the open-source CLI utility rclone. Jake configured the remotes and initiated an upload job against the `Channel Super Fun` directory to see how the system handled real workloads. Because the archive comprised over a million files across more than 100 hard drives networked over two separate servers, simply indexing the directory with standard tools like WinDirStat proved nearly impossible without the utility crashing.

Shortly after launching the rclone transfer, the upload ground to a complete halt with an error. While Google did not cap overall account capacity, they enforced a hidden throttle: “It's limited, but it's limited in a way that the advertising's not false. So, it's unlimited data as long as it's 750 gigs per day.” Any account exceeding 750 GB in a rolling 24-hour window was hit with an upload ban lasting an additional 24 hours. Rate-limiting their single transfer connection to stay beneath this ceiling required throttling the pipe to about 8 MB/s, meaning uploading the existing 370 TB archive would take roughly two full years.

- G Suite Business pricing rule: $10/user/month (unlimited storage tier requires at least 5 active users) - In-house testing setup: Windows 10 VM hosted on an unRAID server using rclone - Enforced limit: 750 GB uploaded per user account per 24 hours - Single-account throughput cap: ~8 MB/s to avoid the 24-hour upload ban - Estimated duration for 370 TB at 8 MB/s: ~2 years

[09:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=547s) Bypassing the Throttle Across Multiple G Suite Seats

Jake devised an exploit centered around how Google enforced the quota. The 750 GB daily upload cap applied on a per-user basis rather than across the whole G Suite domain. By creating two additional user seats—bringing their total to seven accounts at $70 per month—and running concurrent rclone sessions under separate user credentials, they could multiply their effective ingestion rate. Linus explains their realization: “What if we used that limitation to our advantage?”

```mermaid flowchart LR accTitle: Multi-Account G Suite Upload Architecture accDescr: Diagram showing how multiple parallel rclone instances divide the local archive to maximize G Suite transfer speed.

subgraph LocalStorage["On-Premises Infrastructure"] Array["370 TB Video Archive\n(Petabyte Project)"] --> VM["unRAID VM\n(Windows 10 / rclone)"] end

subgraph ParallelUploads["Concurrent Transfers (Each <= 750 GB / Day)"] VM --> U1["Instance 1: User A"] VM --> U2["Instance 2: User B"] VM --> U3["Instance 3: User C"] VM --> U4["Instance 4: User D...G"] end

subgraph CloudTarget["Google Drive Infrastructure"] U1 --> GDrive["Google Drive Storage Pool\nTotal Bandwidth: 40-45 MB/s"] U2 --> GDrive U3 --> GDrive U4 --> GDrive end ```

By balancing upload tasks across seven user accounts, each capped just below the 750 GB daily limit, they sustained an aggregate transfer speed of 40 to 45 MB/s. After running this setup continuously for a week, each user instance had successfully pushed roughly 4 TB of data into Drive without encountering an account ban.

Linus acknowledges that the setup is technically abusive and may eventually be shut down if Google notices, especially given that many Google employees watch Linus Tech Tips. Nevertheless, paying $70 per month (under $1,000 annually) with zero upfront hardware outlay yields an unbeatable off-site backup. In addition to the low cost, rclone provides client-side encryption on both upload and download, and Google Drive imposes no downstream egress fees should they ever need to restore their files after a disaster.

- Total active user accounts: 7 G Suite users - Ongoing monthly subscription: $70 USD / month ($840 USD / year) - Combined upload bandwidth: 40 to 45 MB/s - Data transferred after one week: ~4 TB per user instance (around 28 TB total) - Security & recovery perks: native client-side encryption via rclone and zero egress fees on download

[11:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=702s) Sponsor: Ting Mobile

Linus wraps up the video's sponsorship segment highlighting Ting's mobile service, pointing out that their data rates are cheaper than ever at just $10 per gigabyte beyond the first gigabyte. Viewers are encouraged to visit their savings calculator at linus2018.ting.com to see how much money they could potentially save by switching. If the calculator shows that switching to Ting makes financial sense, Ting will sweeten the deal by covering 25% of the early termination cancellation fee on an existing carrier contract, up to a maximum of $75. Additionally, signing up through their dedicated link awards a $25 credit that can be applied directly to monthly service or toward the purchase of a new phone.

- Data pricing is set at $10 per gigabyte after the initial first gigabyte. - Ting covers 25% of an existing contract cancellation fee up to $75 if switching saves the user money. - Using the promotional link provides a $25 credit usable for service or device purchases.

[12:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=732s) Outro, Google Shareholder Jokes, and Merch Banter

Concluding the video, Linus thanks the audience for watching and humorously acknowledges the sketchy territory of exploiting unlimited cloud storage for petabytes of archival data. Addressing anyone watching who might be an employee of the search giant, he quips, “If you work for Google, well, you know what to do.” He then catches himself and adds an aside about investors who might see their server infrastructure being abused: “Also linked in the description, oh, I guess if you're a Google shareholder, you're probably not stoked on this, either.”

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中文简报

Linus Tech Tips绕过Google Drive限制以70美元归档370 TB数据通过在多个10美元的G Suite账号间并行运行rclone传输，绕过Google每日750 GB的上传上限，以无限量灾难恢复管道替代高昂的企业云费用。由于面临因灾难事故损失逾370 TB未备份视频归档的风险，Linus Media Group评估了异地物理方案（如托管Storinator服务器和磁带库）以及企业级云服务（如AWS Glacier）。在发现企业级方案要么前期硬件成本过高，要么因持续费率和数据出站费而贵到令人望而却步后，他们研究了G Suite Business宣传的无限存储计划。在遇到每个用户账号强制执行的每日750 GB上传上限后，该团队设计了一种利用7个账号、每月花费70美元的多账号rclone通融方案。这一并行管道实现了40至45 MB/s的持续上传速度，并具备客户端加密且无下载惩罚，从而打造出一条极低成本但略显不合常规的灾难恢复管道。 Linus Media Group此前370 TB的本地视频归档面临单点故障风险，需要一套异地备份管道，且该管道还需具备处理每日高达2 TB新增数据的能力。 (0:00) 物理灾难恢复方案被认为成本过高，其中复制一套45Drives Storinator服务器预计需花费超过70,000美元，而企业级LTO-8磁带库的前期成本也超过了20,000美元。 (1:59) AWS Glacier等企业级云方案每月费用高达3,400美元，且在紧急加急检索时的数据恢复费用高昂，约为12,000美元。 (3:56) 该团队通过将rclone传输实例分摊至7个G Suite账号，绕过了Google Drive每个用户每日750 GB的隐藏上传上限，以每月70美元且零出站费的代价实现了40至45 MB/s的总带宽。 (9:07)

Detailed notes — zh

## Background 该视频由知名科技频道 Linus Tech Tips 于 2018 年 8 月 23 日发布在 YouTube 平台上。视频简介提供了 Ting 运营商专属优惠码、多款硬件产品购买链接以及 G Suite 推广链接，并引导观众前往官方论坛参与关于“拍字节服务器备份”的话题讨论。 ## TL;DR 面对自建的 1 PB 存储系统缺乏异地容灾、可能因物理灾害丢失 370 TB 历史片库的巨大风险，Linus 与团队测算了本地双机房托管、LTO-8 磁带库以及 AWS S3 Glacier 等传统方案，但均因数万美元的前期投入或高昂的云端月租与取回费用而放弃。最终，他们利用商业版 G Suite 满 5 个用户享“无限存储”且按账号独立计算 750 GB/天上传限额的规则，通过 rclone 工具配置了 7 个账号并行上传。这套取巧的方案不仅规避了单日限额墙，将总上行速率提升至 40-45 MB/s，还将年化容灾成本不可思议地压缩到了 1,000 美元以内。 ## Atmosphere & style 整期视频充满 Linus Tech Tips 标志性的极客狂欢与戏谑自嘲风格，Linus 与搭档 Jake 之间的即兴互动既硬核又喜感。随着传统备份方案那令人肉痛的“天价账单”被逐一揭开，两人的情绪从被高额成本逼入绝境的抓狂，迅速转变为发现规则漏洞并成功“白嫖”企业级云服务的狂喜与刺激。观感上既像是一场严谨的灾备工程探索，又带着一丝在被封号边缘疯狂试探、生怕被谷歌员工观众当场抓包的“心虚”与反叛快感。 ## Bulletin - [00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=0s) Linus Media Group 为保护近 1 PB 的“拍字节项目”历史视频资产免遭火灾等物理毁灭，急需一套兼具低成本与高容量的异地灾备方案。 - [01:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=89s) 自建双份硬盘服务器需超 70,000 美元前期投入，磁带库单次支出超 20,000 美元，而 AWS Glacier 云归档仅存储与灾后恢复费用每月及单次就高达数千至上万美元。 - [06:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=378s) 团队利用当时 G Suite 满 5 个账号即可解锁“无限存储”的规则，通过多开 7 个账号绕过单账号每日 750 GB 的上传封锁，仅以每月 70 美元的成本实现百 TB 级数据异地容灾。 ## Key takeaways - [00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=0s) 拍字节项目虽然稳定运行一年多且拥有近 1 PB 裸容量，但缺乏地理冗余，一旦仓库发生火灾或灾害将导致未发布母带与历史片库彻底灭失。 - [01:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=89s) 即便拥有对等千兆光纤，已存的 370 TB 历史数据加上每日新增数 TB 的视频素材，仍让公网初始全量同步面临极大的时间考验。 - [01:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=89s) 本地硬件异地容灾成本高昂：采购两台 60 盘位 Storinator 硬件开销超 70,000 美元，而配置双冗余的 HPE LTO-8 磁带库前期投入也超过 20,000 美元。 - [04:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=246s) AWS S3 Glacier 深度归档存在沉重的隐形收费刺客：370 TB 到 500 TB 存量月费需 1,500 至 1,667 美元，且灾难恢复时的出站数据取回费用高达 2,000 到 12,000 美元。 - [06:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=378s) 商业版 G Suite 规定 5 人及以上团队每人每月 10 美元可享受无上限 Google Drive 空间，成为极具吸引力的平价异地灾备备选方案。 - [06:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=378s) 实测发现 Google 对 API 施加了硬性防火墙：单个账户每自然日上传上限为 750 GB，超额后会被锁定写入权限 24 小时，单通道全量同步需耗时两年以上。 - [09:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=545s) 团队采用反制策略，通过开通 7 个 G Suite 账号并利用 rclone 并行挂载，将每个实例的上传速度精准控制在 750 GB/天警戒线内以规避封禁。 - [09:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=545s) 多账号并行方案将上传聚合带宽提升至 40 到 45 MB/s，单周各账号平稳上传约 4 TB，以每日数 TB 的增量推进全量备份。 - [09:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=545s) 基于 rclone 的多账号 Google Drive 方案具备全盘端到端加密、无高额取回费用且年化成本不到 1,000 美元，但面临随时被谷歌官方封杀接口的政策风险。 ## Detailed walkthrough ### [00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=0s) 拍字节项目的异地冗余危机就在一年多前，Linus Media Group 为解决迫在眉睫的存储危机，部署了一套极其实用的自建方案——“拍字节项目”（Petabyte Project），提供了高达 1 PB 的原始归档容量。整套系统在上线的一年多里运行平稳，至今未出现任何重大硬件故障。然而，整套架构潜藏着一个致命缺陷：系统完全缺乏地理冗余（Geo-redundancy）。这意味着一旦团队所在的仓库发生火灾或遭遇任何自然灾害，所有尚未上传到 YouTube 平台上的历史母带、工程文件及整个历史片库（Back catalog）都将化为乌有。为了保护目前已沉淀的 370 TB 历史数据以及未来不断激增的新素材，团队决定寻找一种成本尽可能低廉的异地灾备方案。Linus 半开玩笑地向镜头问道：“这应该挺简单的吧？对吧？” - **现有归档存量**：约 370 TB 实际使用数据（物理裸容量近 1 PB） - **核心业务风险**：无跨地域异地容灾，单一实体仓库面临物理损毁威胁 ### [01:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=89s) 本地硬件复制与磁带存储的成本账团队开始梳理可行的异地备份路线。无论选择何种路径，首先面临的客观瓶颈都是互联网带宽。尽管工作室拉通了上下行对等的千兆光纤（Symmetric Gigabit），但面对已有的几百 TB 历史存量，外加制作团队每天源源不断注入的高达数 TB 新视频资产，纯靠公网初次同步注定耗时数月之久。最直观的设想是在本地搭建一套“拍字节项目第二期”：在局域网内通过 10 GbE 高速网络将数据完整对拷，再物理搬运到网络服务商（ISP）提供的便宜机房进行托管（Colocation）。虽然长期的托管机位费用尚在可接受范围内，但前期硬件投入极其高昂。购买两台满配 60 盘位的 45Drives Storinator 存储服务器外加全部机械硬盘，硬件采购费用将超过 70,000 美元；换算成加拿大元后，直接逼近六位数大关。Linus 一边打趣 Jake 搬走沉重的服务器样品时“记得用腰发力伴随扭身抽动”，一边迅速否决了全硬盘方案。退而求其次的硬件方案是磁带机存储（Tape storage）。例如惠普企业级（HPE）的机架式磁带库本体售价约 5,000 至 7,000 美元，单盘 12 TB 的 LTO-8 磁带每盒约 160 美元。粗算下来，容纳 500 TB 以上未压缩数据的磁带介质成本虽然相对低廉，但考虑到磁带库本身需要双份部署保障冗余，前期必须一次性掏出超过 20,000 美元的真金白银。Linus 直言这笔数额庞大的单笔开销实在令人难以承受。 ```mermaid flowchart TD accTitle: 异地备份方案考量流程图 accDescr: 评估本地硬件、磁带库与公有云灾备方案的成本与可行性 subgraph LocalHardware["本地硬件方案"] A["采购两台 60 盘位 Storinator"] -->|硬件开销超 70,000 美元| B["成本过高，否决"] C["部署 HPE LTO-8 磁带库"] -->|单次前期固定投入超 20,000 美元| D["前期预算过高，否决"] end subgraph CloudEnterprise["企业级公有云 (如 AWS)"] E["AWS S3 Glacier 归档"] -->|存储月费高达 1,600-3,400 美元| F["月租沉重"] F -->|数据调取费用 2,000-12,000 美元| G["灾难恢复额外被收割，否决"] end ``` ### [04:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=246s) 企业级云存储（AWS Glacier）的高额刺客账单硬件买断路线碰壁后，Linus 将目光转向了许多网友最初就力荐的公有云归档服务，并与团队成员 Jake 一起打开了 AWS 的价格计算器，针对极低成本的 AWS S3 Glacier 深度归档进行测算。实际测算出的费用数字让两人倒吸一口凉气： 1. **基础存储月费**：仅仅为了存下当前已有的约 370 TB 到 500 TB 数据，每月的纯存储开销就高达 1,500 美元；加上企业支持服务（Support plan），月账单直接攀升至 1,667 美元。 2. **满容量成本**：如果按照服务器未来能扩充到的 760 TB 算力容量存储，每月仅云端保留费就要耗费 3,400 美元。 3. **出站取回费用（Egress / Retrieval Fees）**：更严苛的隐形门槛在于数据取回机制。Glacier 存进去便宜，取出来却要额外按量计费。如果在遭遇火灾后需要全量恢复数据，选择最慢的批量取回模式需额外一次性支付约 2,000 美元；若希望在灾后紧急快速拉回全部数据，极速取回的账单将飙升至惊人的 12,000 美元。 Linus 忍不住痛斥这种趁火打劫的商业模式：“So, let's say your your office burns down, and you've got to pull all your data out of the cloud, you get a nice handy-dandy bill for $2,000 to add insult to injury.” 面对来自 Google Cloud、Microsoft Azure 和 Backblaze 等其它企业级产品同样昂贵的报价，Linus 明确表示绝不可能接受每个月砸下 3,000 到 5,000 美元去维护一个异地备份。 ### [06:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=378s) 试探 G Suite “无限容量”与 750 GB 每日限额墙陷入僵局之际，两人突然想到了商业版 G Suite（Google Workspace 前身）一直宣称的“无限云存储”策略。按照当时的条款，企业版提供每用户 10 美元/月的套餐，如果企业内拥有 5 个或更多用户，每个用户均可获得无上限的 Google 云端硬盘（Google Drive）存储空间；若少于 5 个用户，则每人仅限 1 TB。Linus 算了一笔账：开通 5 个账号每个月只需支付 50 美元，这简直便宜得不可思议。Jake 对此表示怀疑，但 Linus 坚称既然写了“无限”，不兑现就是虚假宣传，决定亲自做破坏性测试。为了验证这一方案的实用性，Jake 在工作室的 unRAID 实用服务器上开了一台 Windows 10 虚拟机，并配置了著名的开源命令行云存储同步工具 rclone。他们挑选了 Channel Super Fun 子频道的历史目录作为初次试验目标。由于拍字节服务器包含分布在两台独立物理机上的 100 多块硬盘，且存储了近百万个零碎文件，以往使用 WinDirStat 等传统工具甚至会直接卡死崩溃，整个文件树索引本身就耗费了数小时。任务开始执行不久后，上传进程突然彻底停滞。Jake 查阅后台报错后发现遭遇了系统限制。原来 Google 并没有在总存储容量上做虚假宣传，但在 API 接口与上传机制上设下了精密的防火墙：**每个账户每天被硬性限制最多只能上传 750 GB 数据**。一旦触碰该阈值，该账户的写入权限将被直接封禁锁定整整 24 小时。这意味着如果单账号平摊带宽，上传速率必须被死死压制在 8 MB/s 左右。Linus 拿出计算器一算，若以这种龟速搬运目前的 370 TB 历史数据，需要耗费整整两年以上的时间，这种限制直接让原生的滥用操作失去了工程可行性。 - **G Suite 商业套餐规则**：满 5 个活跃用户（单价 10 美元/人/月），解锁无上限存储声明 - **API 隐形软封锁**：单个账号每自然日限额 750 GB 写入；超额即触发 24 小时阻断 - **单通道耗时瓶颈**：单账号按 8 MB/s 匀速传输，370 TB 存量初次同步需耗时约 2 年 ### [09:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=545s) 多账号分流破局：Jake 的“反制”骚操作面对规则封锁，Jake 提出了一个绝妙的反向利用（Workaround）方案：既然 Google 要求至少购买 5 个账号才能激活无限存储层级，而且 750 GB/天的流量限额是**按账号独立结算**的，为何不把这种限制反过来利用？团队索性将账号规模扩大到 7 个（除了保底的 5 个账号外，额外添加了 User 6 和 Jake 自己的专用账号），随后使用 rclone 开启多个并行进程，同时挂载不同的 G Suite 账号分头上传不同目录。每个实例都将上传速率限制在刚好不超过单日 750 GB 的警戒线内。这一多管道并发策略取得了惊人效果： - **总吞吐带宽**：成功将整个团队推向 Google Drive 的上行聚合带宽拉升到了 40 到 45 MB/s。 - **阶段性战果**：自动化脚本连续平稳运行了一周，每个挂载的账号实例都已经独立搬运了约 4 TB 数据，多通道合计以每天数 TB 的速度持续注入。 ```mermaid flowchart LR accTitle: 多账号并发并发规避 750GB 上传配额 accDescr: 展示将拍字节归档拆分并通过 7 个 G Suite 账号并行上传到 Google Drive 的流程 A["拍字节服务器 (370 TB 归档)"] --> B["rclone 多实例任务分流"] subgraph GSuiteAccounts["G Suite 并行账号矩阵 (限速 <=750GB/天/人)"] B --> C1["账号 1 (750 GB/天)"] B --> C2["账号 2 (750 GB/天)"] B --> C3["账号 3...5 (各 750 GB/天)"] B --> C4["账号 6 & 7 (各 750 GB/天)"] end C1 --> D["Google 云端硬盘无限存储池"] C2 --> D C3 --> D C4 --> D ``` Linus 在结尾处总结道，尽管未来无法保证 Google 不会封杀这种骚操作（尤其是许多 Google 员工本身就是该频道的忠实观众，视频一发甚至可能加速漏洞被堵死），但就现状而言，他们零硬件首付，仅靠 7 个账号每月 70 美元（年化成本不到 1,000 美元）的代价，就搭建起了全网性价比最为夸张的数百 TB 级异地云容灾方案。更重要的是，rclone 全程支持端到端数据加密，且从 Google Drive 取回数据没有 AWS 那样漫天要价的出站罚款。Linus 直言：“We're basically terrible people. I'm okay with it, though.” 尽管在道德边缘试探，但这套方案总算解决了灾难恢复的后顾之忧，随后他便向 YouTube 官方对接经理戏谑致歉并切入赞助商环节。 ### [11:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=702s) Ting 赞助福利与资费优惠在赞助环节中，Linus 介绍了移动虚拟网络运营商 Ting 当前的资费优势。他强调 Ting 现在的流量资费比以往任何时候都要实惠，在超过第 1 个 GB 之后，后续的流量费用仅需每 GB 10 美元。观众可以通过专用链接访问其省钱计算器（savings calculator）来测算自己的资费降幅。如果计算结果表明用户转入 Ting 确实能够省钱，Ting 还将为用户报销现有合约违约金（cancellation fee）的 25%，报销上限达 75 美元。此外，通过指定的赞助链接注册，用户还可以额外获得 25 美元的代金券，既能直接冲抵话费账单，也可用于换购新手机设备。 - **流量单价**：超出首 GB 后仅需 10 美元 / GB。 - **违约金补贴**：报销原有运营商解约费用的 25%，上限 75 美元。 - **新用户专属福利**：通过专属链接可获得 25 美元服务代金券或购机补贴。 ### [12:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=731s) 视频收尾、调侃谷歌员工与官方周边推荐在正片收尾阶段，Linus 带着标志性的调侃语气感谢观众收看本期视频，并直接隔空喊话：“If you work for Google, well, you know what to do.”（如果你是谷歌员工，嗯，你知道该怎么做）。他不仅暗示谷歌团队可能会封禁他们的账号或修复无限储存空间的漏洞，还半开玩笑地顺带提到了投资人：“Also linked in the description, oh, I guess if you're a Google shareholder, you're probably not stoked on this, either.”（我猜如果你是谷歌股东，你看到这期视频大概也不会太高兴）。在常规的求三连环节（点赞、订阅并查看简介中的硬件购买链接）之后，Linus 准备为自家的周边商城打广告。他低下头打量了一下自己的衣服，尴尬地发现自己身上穿的居然都不是自家周边，于是转头问身边的同事有没有穿 LTT 官方 T 恤。在同事亮出身上的衣服后，Linus 顺势展示并夸赞道，商城里有像这件一样帅气的 T 恤，最后他还呼吁观众一定要去注册并加入他们的官方社区论坛。 - **互动引导**：提醒观众点赞、订阅频道，并在简介栏查看展示硬件的购买链接。 - **周边展示插曲**：Linus 发现自己没有穿官方 T 恤，现场借用同事身上穿着的 LTT 衣服进行口播展示。 - **社区引流**：邀请观众加入 Linus Tech Tips 官方讨论论坛参与交流。 ## Notable quotes > [04:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg&t=246s) So, let's say your your office burns down, and you've got to pull all your data out of the cloud, you get a nice handy-dandy bill for $2,000 to add insult to injury. — Linus ## Mentioned Linus Sebastian, Jake, Linus Media Group, Linus Tech Tips, Petabyte Project, YouTube, 45Drives Storinator, HPE, LTO-8, AWS S3 Glacier, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Backblaze, G Suite, Google Workspace, Google Drive, unRAID, Windows 10, rclone, Channel Super Fun, WinDirStat, Ting, noblechairs ## Video description Receive an additional $25 credit for Ting today when you use code LINUS2018 at https://linus2018.ting.com/ Buy noblechairs ICON Series Real Leather Gaming Chair on Amazon at http://geni.us/IFow Buy HDDs on Amazon: http://geni.us/YtQd77d Sign up for G Suite using our affiliate link at https://goo.gl/jQZGRx Discuss on the forum: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/963853-backing-up-the-petabyte-server/ Our Affiliates, Referral Programs, and Sponsors: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/75969-linus-tech-tips-affiliates-referral-programs-and-sponsors Linus Tech Tips merchandise at http://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/LinusTechTips/ Linus Tech Tips posters at http://crowdmade.com/linustechtips Our Test Benches on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/shop/linustechtips Our production gear: http://geni.us/cvOS Twitter - https://twitter.com/linustech Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/LinusTech Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/linustech Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/linustech Intro Screen Music Credit: Title: Laszlo - Supernova Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfxmFU3lWY iTunes Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/supernova/id936805712 Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/laszlomusic Outro Screen Music Credit: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High http://www.youtube.com/approachingnirvana Sound effects provided by http://www.freesfx.co.uk/sfx/ [Source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg)

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[4:06] Linus: So, let's say your your office burns down, and you've got to pull all your data out of the cloud, you get a nice handy-dandy bill for $2,000 to add insult to injury.

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[6:18] Linus Sebastian: It's limited, but it's limited in a way that the advertising's not false. So, it's unlimited data as long as it's 750 gigs per day.

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[0:00] Just over a year ago, we deployed an [0:02] insane solution to our storage problem. [0:06] The petabyte project. A petabyte of raw [0:10] archival storage. I mean, that thing is [0:12] freaking awesome. We have yet to have [0:14] any problems with it. [0:16] But, [0:17] there's still a major issue with this [0:19] deployment. It's not geo-redundant at [0:23] all, which means that if there were a [0:25] fire in the Linus Media Group warehouse, [0:27] or I mean, really any kind of natural [0:29] disaster, we could potentially lose our [0:32] entire back catalog. That is, anything [0:35] that we haven't already uploaded to [0:37] YouTube. [0:38] So, we endeavored to find a way to, as [0:42] inexpensively as possible, back up the [0:44] entire server. That's all 370 [0:49] terabytes of currently stored data, plus [0:52] anything we would want to add in the [0:54] future. That's [0:56] easy enough, right? [0:59] Right? [1:00] I think so. [1:01] You know what else is easy? Your move [1:04] over to a better chair, like the ones [1:07] from Noble Chairs. Their ICON Series [1:09] real leather edition gaming chair was [1:10] designed in Germany and inspired by [1:12] luxury car interiors. Learn more at the [1:14] link below. Just hope they weren't [1:16] inspired by like the trunk of a luxury [1:18] car, because that'd be very [1:19] uncomfortable. [1:29] Now, there are a lot of different ways [1:30] that we could go about backing up our [1:32] server. Some of them easier and some of [1:33] them harder than others, but almost all [1:36] of them are going to be limited by one [1:39] thing. [1:40] Our internet bandwidth. I mean, don't [1:42] get me wrong, we have a symmetric [1:43] gigabit connection. I'm not complaining, [1:45] but when you're talking about hundreds [1:48] of terabytes that are already in the [1:49] archive, and then up to a couple of [1:52] terabytes a day being added, [1:55] things can start to take a while. Like, [1:57] like months a while. [1:59] Now, our first idea was to build [2:01] something locally, fill it up with data [2:04] here using our 10 gigabit network, and [2:07] then ship it offsite. A sort of like, [2:10] ah, thank you, Jake. Oh, wow. Uh, [2:12] petabyte project part two. Now, [2:16] this solution wouldn't actually expand [2:19] our storage capacity because it would [2:21] just be an identical server, or that is [2:24] to say, two servers with the same data [2:27] on it. But, since our internet service [2:29] provider offers us inexpensive [2:31] colocation, it would actually be very [2:34] cost-effective from an ongoing [2:36] standpoint. Except for one small [2:39] problem. If we had to buy two more [2:42] decked-out 60-drive Storinators, we'd be [2:46] looking at, with the drives included, [2:48] upwards of 70,000 [2:51] US dollars. [2:53] So, converted to Canadian rubles, that [2:55] is getting dangerously close to [2:58] six-figure territory. You can You can [3:01] take that away. So, [3:02] so that eliminates hard drives. You [3:04] good? Okay, just remember lift with your [3:06] back with a twisting, jerking motion. [3:08] All right, thanks. [3:09] on that. [3:10] So, that eliminates hard drives. [3:12] What about tape storage? A rack-mount [3:15] tape library like this one from HP [3:17] Enterprise only costs about five to [3:19] seven thousand dollars, and [3:21] high-capacity 12 terabyte LTO-8 tapes [3:24] are about 160 bucks a piece. So, for [3:27] over 500 terabytes of uncompressed [3:31] backup capacity, that's actually looking [3:34] pretty good by comparison. But, there's [3:37] the fact that we'd need two of them, and [3:40] it looks like we're still spending well [3:43] over 20,000 US dollars [3:46] upfront, lump sum. Throw that on the [3:49] black card, you know You know it is. [3:51] So, hardware-based solutions [3:54] are not looking too peachy. [3:56] Uh what what about um [3:58] Shoot, what's it called? It's kind of [3:59] like buzzworthy, um [4:02] disruptive, uh blockchain. No, oh well, [4:05] oh cloud. [4:06] Cloud storage. You guys were all [4:09] shrieking at us back when we originally [4:12] built Petabyte Project for not using [4:14] cloud storage for our archive in the [4:17] first place. [4:18] So, uh [4:20] I think this is where you come in. We're [4:21] going to [4:22] check out some AWS here, there, buddy. [4:24] So, this is Glacier. So, this is like [4:26] slow. [4:28] Start the download. [4:30] Okay. So, if we just wanted to back up [4:31] everything we got right now. [4:32] 1500 terabytes? [4:34] $1,500 a month? [4:36] Wow. [4:38] Plus support, you know, you need [4:39] support. [4:40] Yeah. [4:40] $1,667. So, [4:43] if we wanted to store the full, what is [4:46] it, about 760 terabytes that we have? [4:49] That we could have. [4:50] Holy [4:52] $3,400 [4:54] a month? [4:56] I mean, I get it. I guess these guys [4:57] have to cover the upfront costs that [5:00] they're paying for that same hardware, [5:02] and they've got, you know, [5:04] geo replication and all that kind of [5:06] cool stuff as well, but like [5:08] holy balls. Wait, hold on a second. [5:12] Go go back to that. [5:16] No, no, no. [5:17] This is before you even actually pull [5:21] any data out of it. [5:22] Okay. [5:23] You have to pay to pull data out. [5:25] let's go with the cheapest one. Let's [5:27] say we want to pull the whole thing. [5:30] Another two grand? [5:33] So, so this is great. So, let's say your [5:35] your office burns down, and you've got [5:37] to pull all your data out of the cloud, [5:39] you get a nice handy-dandy bill for [5:41] $2,000 to add insult to injury. [5:43] That's that's the slowest. [5:45] That's the slowest speed. [5:46] So, let's say we want [5:47] Let's say you need it all of it right [5:48] away. [5:48] Real fast. [5:49] Oh, gigabytes. [5:51] Oh, yeah. [5:54] 12 grand, no big deal. Whatever, it's [5:56] fine. Don't worry about it. [5:58] Casual, right? [5:58] Casual. And the crazy part of this is [6:00] that other enterprise solutions from the [6:03] likes of Google, Microsoft, and [6:05] Backblaze aren't priced [6:08] that differently. So, [6:12] what are we going to do? I'm not paying [6:14] three to five grand a month to store [6:16] data on tape? [6:18] Wait. [6:19] Does Does Google still have unlimited [6:21] storage? [6:22] Well, yeah, but there's no way that's [6:23] actually unlimited. [6:25] Well, [6:25] I mean, it's got to be. That would be [6:26] false advertising, wouldn't it be? [6:28] Unlimited access with the $10 per user [6:30] tier, unlimited cloud storage, or 1 TB [6:35] per user if you were than five users. [6:36] So, [6:37] we just get five users. That's like $50 [6:39] a month. That's nothing. [6:40] It can't be unlimited. [6:42] I guess we got to try. [6:44] To find out if this loophole's actually [6:46] going to work, we fired up a Windows 10 [6:48] VM on our utility unRAID server and [6:50] installed a tool called rclone. [6:53] So, Jake's got the unlimited Google [6:56] Drive account set up and working. So, it [6:59] should just be a matter of running the [7:01] command [7:02] and seeing what happens. So, maybe start [7:06] with Channel Super Fun. [7:07] Channel Super Fun. [7:08] How big's that? [7:10] Uh, [7:10] let's see. [7:12] That might take a while. [7:14] But, remember, guys, this is [7:16] uh over 100 drives spread across two [7:20] completely separate boxes that are [7:21] networked to each other. [7:25] Well, this is taking forever. I think we [7:27] had all I I indexed the entire petabyte [7:29] project, and I think we had almost a [7:31] million files on it. [7:32] It took like literally [7:35] I think a couple hours to do, but I did [7:37] index the whole thing. WinDirStat [7:39] doesn't work. It dies. It like [7:41] just can't handle that much. [7:43] Okay. [7:44] So, should we see how it's going here? [7:48] Oh, it's it's not going at all. What the [7:50] heck? [7:52] What? Oh, there's a limit. [7:57] So, you were right. [7:58] Yeah. [7:58] It is limited. [8:00] It's limited, but it's limited in a way [8:02] that the advertising's not false. So, [8:04] it's unlimited data [8:06] Yeah. [8:07] as long as it's 750 gigs per day. [8:10] Upload it, yeah. [8:11] As it turns out, Google saw bastards [8:13] like us coming a mile away, [8:16] and it looks like if you don't want to [8:19] have your upload cut off, [8:21] you're only able to do 750 gigs a day. [8:24] Otherwise, you have to wait an [8:26] additional 24 hours for an upload ban to [8:29] pass. [8:31] So, what we would have to do then is [8:34] slow our uploads to just around um 8 [8:38] megabytes a second, which would mean [8:40] that our current 370 terabytes would uh [8:43] You got that calculator handy? [8:45] 370 terabytes [8:47] Ooh. [8:48] would take about 2 years. [8:51] So, while Google hasn't limited our [8:54] uploads, they have effectively made it [8:57] completely impractical for us to abuse [8:59] their system this way. [9:01] Guess that makes sense. [9:03] Oh, wait. Nope. [9:05] We're not defeated yet. [9:07] New plan. So, [9:09] you're actually required to pay for a [9:12] minimum of five G Suite accounts in [9:14] order to unlock that unlimited storage [9:18] tier. [9:19] But, [9:20] that got us thinking, and actually I'm [9:23] going to give Jake full credit for this [9:24] idea. [9:25] What if we used that limitation to our [9:29] advantage? [9:31] Check this out. So, [9:33] it turns out that the 750 gig per day [9:36] upload cap is per each one of our users [9:41] here. So, by just adding a couple more [9:43] accounts, user six here and Mr. Jake [9:46] Tyree, [9:48] we can actually end up, even if we limit [9:50] each account to not go over 750 gigs a [9:53] day, we can still end up maxing out our [9:56] upload speed to drive at about 40 to 45 [9:59] megabytes a second. Now, [10:01] it's not the prettiest solution, [10:04] but this has been going for a week and [10:07] each one of our instances here has now [10:09] done about 4 terabytes of data. [10:14] Yeah, it's a lot of data. It's a lot of [10:17] data. [10:18] So, conclusion time then, I guess. I [10:21] mean, for now, there's there's no [10:23] guarantee whatsoever that Google [10:25] isn't going to shut down this work [10:27] around and there's a fair number of [10:29] Googlers out there, I think, that watch [10:30] our videos. So, [10:32] us making this video sort of increases [10:34] our chances, but [10:35] for now, at zero upfront cost and $70 a [10:40] month for our seven G Suite accounts, [10:43] that's less than $1,000 a year, we have [10:46] got what is quite literally the least [10:49] expensive multi-terabyte backup solution [10:52] that you could have. [10:54] We're basically terrible people. I'm [10:56] okay with it, though. [10:58] I can live with myself. [10:59] On the plus side, though, this supports [11:01] encryption on upload and download and [11:03] there are no fees for pulling the data [11:05] down in the event of some kind of a [11:06] disaster. [11:07] I mean, who knows how fast it's going to [11:08] be. [11:08] That helps me sleep better at night. [11:11] So, there you go. We're pretty happy, [11:13] even if anyone watching at Google isn't. [11:17] Hi our YouTube rep. [11:18] I don't know if I'm supposed to tell [11:19] people your name. [11:20] Oh, yeah. [11:22] Probably don't. 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