G+_Bill McVicker Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 What do you all think is the best cloud backup service? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Perry Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 My vote is for own cloud. Only because I am a control freak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Taylor Graham Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 amazon s3/glacier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 S3 might give more control but I like the simplicity and price of CrashPlan. They also give you the option of letting you hold all the keys so it can only he decrypted by you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eddie Foy Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Whats the fascination with cloud back up? Its slow. Use VMs? WAY slow. I just don't understand it. Convenience? Can be done traditionally too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Taylor Graham Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 The fascination with cloud backup is recoverability! If your house burns down, your data doesn't go with it. It is slow though. For my data, a nas is perfectly fine. If my house burns down, i'll probably be more worried about other things :D. One day we'll all have gigabit connections and doing a 100gb nightly backup to the cloud will be common place. One day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eddie Foy Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Buddy's/relative's house/ safety deposit box. I will never put my critical (or even quasi important) data on an unknown computer, owned by a stranger in a undisclosed location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Eddie Foy the problem with traditional off-site backup (Buddy's/relative's house/safety deposit box) is that it only works as long as you stick to the backup plan. Even then, you only get backup intervals as often as you're willing to go through the process of putting an entire copy offsite. -- With cloud backup, I have a near-continuous (maximum of a 30 minute gap) backup into a system that itself has multiple backups. As for security, I encrypt everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Eddie Foy? true, the security of the data is dependent on your trust of the unknown people holding it. This can be offset by strong encryption as Padre mentioned. As for upload times, it took me about 6 months to upload 2 TB to the cloud on a mid-tier cable connection. I know there are people who have more data than I do, but I don't see this rate as being that terrible. My dad, on the other hand, has been uploading data for over a year on DSL and still is just over half way done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Hacking “Hackingamer” G Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 For free data backup you have think of ways to do it yourself if that means other houses that is what you have to do and you can still encrypt your data doing it. I don't trust any so called (cloud) service. Your putting it on a server you have no idea where at. I want to know where my data is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Stephen Hart Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 There was a water main break near our bank and all of the safety deposit boxes got flooded :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Timothy Hamlett Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 cough cough Carbonite.... It has seamless continuity... And before you say anything Eddie Foy??, it's encrypted with my own key.? I never use the mobile apps anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dave Hart Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 If you have a large collection of files & a slow internet collection: prioritize your files. First back up important documents & correspondence, then family photos before your music and video collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Terry Henderson Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Bill McVicker For My 27" iMac, I Use Time Machine, SuperDuper, A Netgear Ready NAS, & CrashPlan !!!! IMHO, You Can't Have Too Many Back Ups !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Timothy Hamlett? - do you run into throttling problems with Carbonite? I thought they had a policy that allowed them to throttle your uploads if you uploaded too much in a given month... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Timothy Hamlett Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Ben Reese nope, no throttling yet. But then again, my data accounts for only 250gb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brent Burzycki Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 I use backblaze and carbonite. 5 years plus on both across 20 computers with few if no issues over that time. I like backblaze a bit better for what I do.. But both have worked really well for me.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Tyger Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Bill McVicker? I use crashplan. They have great prices and have support for Windows, Mac, AND Linux. They have TNO encryption if would want. It supports both cloud and local (on disk / same account / friends) backups so you can keep onsite and cloud backups with the same application. Crashplan can also work with some NAS systems. One of the downsides is that it uses Java. So the engine and UI are a bit more resource intensive than most native app versions. I haven't found it to be horribly different though. I'll take the resource hit for the multi-plaform support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Terry Henderson Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Ben Tyger CrashPlan On The Mac, No Longer Requires Java , Since The Latest Update !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Terry Henderson? nice! I'll have to check for an update. The GB of RAM per TB backed up was a bit of a killer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Terry Henderson Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 +Ben Reese It's CrashPlan Version 3.7.0 , I Just Checked. However I Was Incorrect !! It Now Uses It's Own Version Of Java(Built In), So You Don't Get Prompted To Install Java !! Mine Is Running Right Now, & Only Using 500MB Of System Memory, So It Looks Like They Fixed The Excessive Memory Problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Marsh Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Look, the best method here is to build a low-powered machine, install your choice of free OS, and use crashplan to backup to that. Once your initial backup is complete, move it to a buddy's/relative's house and boom, there's your cloud backup. No monthly charge, you own the machine(s) the backup is on, and your backup buddy group can set up a multi-host, redundant, distributed backup network, further protecting your data from massive natural disasters. (unless you all live in the same community). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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