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Buzzard44 wrote:Depending how often you need to backup, the cheapest/most private form of backup would be a 2TB Caviar Green, that you backup to once a month or so, and keep offsite at a friend/family member's/safe deposit box. Couple that with an eSATA or USB 3 HDD dock, and you're backups will be a snap.
hiro_pro wrote:i have used carbonite for about a year now. i am satisfied. it easy to use and i like the remote access. the problem i have is the upload speed. carbonite seriously throttles upload speed. i was recently married and my sister took all the pictures. she ended up with 30gb of .NEF raw files. carbonite uploads at about 100 megabits per sec so it will take close to a month to backup those pictures.
does anyone have a faster recommendation? I have about 250gb of info worth backing up. yes, that excludes the bit-torrent out of copyright educational matterials
wibeasley wrote:Dieter, are you still happy with CrashPlan? I should get an offsite solution soon.
morphine wrote:... If they somehow implemented block-level backup, now that would be incredible...
dmjifn wrote:(1) - Edit: My mistake - I haven't gotten it to use network drives. That's a limitation with the Crashplan Windows service.
dmjifn wrote:FWIW, I also looked at Carbonite, Mozy, Backblaze, iDrive, and DropBox.
frumper15 wrote:I think that's the plan morphine termed 'Plan B' (as opposed to 'Part B' of the plan I outlined) and endorsed. I agree that downloading the bare-metal over the internet would be a problem. But my NAS would be at a friend's house 30 miles away. If I drove it home, I could use it directly in my home network, instead of running the data back through the internet, right?It would be nice, I suppose, to have bare metal restore from Crashplan, but I can't imagine how that would work without downloading an image to a local drive first. I can't imagine the wait to restore a 20GB OS image over the wire -- what if it hangs halfway through? Yuck. I think your best bet if you want that functionality would be to use something like Acronis Truimage to make incremental or differential backups to a locally connected drive and then back up that folder.
wibeasley wrote:Yes. And it also works the other way, meaning you could drive the initial backup to his place instead of sending it over the wire.... my NAS would be at a friend's house 30 miles away. If I drove it home, I could use it directly in my home network, instead of running the data back through the internet, right?
frumper15 wrote:There is an "unsupported" method you can use to backup mapped drives using Crashplan as outlined here:
http://support.crashplan.com/doku.php/r ... ped_drives
xtalentx wrote:I was "told" to setup an Amazon S3 account at work and backup everything to it.
I'll be doing that this weekend... We have about 10 TB of data that will be going.
If you want I can let you know how the whole process goes.
xtalentx wrote:That's around $1,500/month. Did they give you much hassle about finding a lower price, or are the risks too great?I was "told" to setup an Amazon S3 account at work and backup everything to it. We have about 10 TB of data that will be going.
wibeasley wrote:xtalentx wrote:I was "told" to setup an Amazon S3 account at work and backup everything to it. We have about 10 TB of data that will be going.
That's around $1,500/month. Did they give you much hassle about finding a lower price, or are the risks too great?
wibeasley wrote:xtalentx wrote:That's around $1,500/month. Did they give you much hassle about finding a lower price, or are the risks too great?I was "told" to setup an Amazon S3 account at work and backup everything to it. We have about 10 TB of data that will be going.
just brew it! wrote:I guess I missed this thread originally, but noticed it recently.
Sounds like the original deal was one of those "too good to be true" things. They probably got killed by improved residential broadband speeds (people unwilling to pick and choose what to back up, and taking advantage of the "unlimited" aspect), and had to adjust their business strategy accordingly.
Know anyone else with a decent broadband connection? My inclination would be to go with some sort of "you back up my files, I'll back up yours" agreement with a friend or family member. Use something like rsync to minimize Internet bandwidth demands, and keep a local copy as well. For normal "my hard drive crashed" or "I accidentally deleted a file" scenarios, you're relying on nobody outside your inner circle. And you're only relying on your "buddy" in the case of a catastrophic event (e.g. fire, earthquake, tornado); and provided you periodically check that the backups are happening, I'd trust your best friend / parent / child / etc. more than I'd trust some faceless Internet cloud services provider.