G+_Mark Jurisch Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 What about a backup episode? You constantly talk about it, but never really do into details. Many of us have multiple computers on multiple OS's, how about backing up our NAS? There are many Carbonite type cloud solutions, but what is a cost effective option for several systems? I'd like to see some options like crashplan covered, maybe a simple box to set up in a friends house, creating your own remote server essentially to back your stuff up to constantly for free, or backing all of your computers to a single computer and then backing up that computer to the cloud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Aaron Freeman Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 I like crashplan $13 a month... 5 PC's Mac and windows combo. PC's are in three different locations.. I also use the crasplan software to backup to local external NAS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jerry McMurphy Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 I use a combination of osx server and cloud services Dropbox and OneDrive. All my mac users have shares on the server for large files that don't need to be portable. This is for iPhoto libraries, media files, etc. For files that must be accessible to me at all times, I use Dropbox or OneDrive. Since these services sync to my local machines, they also take up space on the local machines. Backups as follows: server is backed up nightly to direct attached external drive. Weekly or monthly, I backup server data to portable drives and take them to safe deposit box ($30 / year at my bank). Mac machines backup using time machine to server, and via cloud syncing. Took me a long time to get all this worked out, but I'm now confident there is little chance of losing my data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Tyger Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Marcelo Henrique Almeida Bittorrent Sync would work well for personal backups. It doesn't allow for the level of access management that business needs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Tyger Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Marcelo Henrique Almeida Just be aware that BTSync doesn't save file permissions as far as I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Tyger Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Marcelo Henrique Almeida I've been using crashplan for over a year. I can't say it has been issue free. I've had few license issues and an upgrade issue. I haven't had any data backup or restore issues though. Since it is a Java based client, the resource overhead is a bit heavier that I'd like. But if that is the cost for Linux support, I'll gladly pay it. #crashplan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Mark Jurisch Posted May 2, 2014 Author Share Posted May 2, 2014 I'm primarily thinking of LARGE backups of video collections. I would really prefer if my house were to burn down that I don't have to replace and then rip all of my DVD's again. The reason Crashplan interests me is I could build another machine, make the first data dump, send it to a friends house, and let it run in the background as changes occur. No monthly fee, and my friend could back up to my local NAS/server in return for free. Online backup of several TB would be expensive and take forever. I would love to see other options though. The multiple computers being backed up is another related issue. I'm mainly curious as to what other solutions exist besides Crashplan, and figure many other people have a similar situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Tyger Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Crashplan can do that. You may want to pay for the CrashPlan+ though. The free version does support backing up locally and with friends. My big issue was that the free CrashPlan only supports a single backup set per a computer. CrashPlan+ supports multiple. If that isn't an issue for you, then the free version may be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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