It’s not going to work when 14TB turns into 100’s TB.
You can’t keep footing the bill.
Discussion
We might need to normalize having Nostr clients support export and import backup functionality — saving to local disk, iCloud, Google Drive, or wherever. Not everyone will run their own personal relay so this might be a good alternative.
yeah cloud backup is a cool idea
Won't that take us back to centralized authority or is that a risk we are willing to take in the name of storage space?
Not really. As long as you have the option to backup to your own non-custodial storage and/or to one or many storage providers, that mitigates the risk.