Opinions on good cloud backup?
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@guyinpv How much data do you need to back up now? How much will it be in 5 years?
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Assuming you would rarely, if ever, need to access the data; AWS Glacier could be an affordable alternative:
$0.004 per GB / month
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@ramblingbiped glacier restore time is very slow and quite expensive. but it is good alternative
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@guyinpv I'm just asking because if this is for home and you have a decent amount of data to back up... it may just be best to bring up some crappy desktop somewhere with a few drives running FreeNAS. You can back up to that via iSCSI with whatever backup software you want.
This may be cheaper and easier than "cloud" if you have a lot of data.
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@tim_g said in Opinions on good cloud backup?:
@guyinpv I'm just asking because if this is for home and you have a decent amount of data to back up... it may just be best to bring up some crappy desktop somewhere with a few drives running FreeNAS. You can back up to that via iSCSI with whatever backup software you want.
This may be cheaper and easier than "cloud" if you have a lot of data.
This does nothing to get it offsite, which is the point.
It is cheap and easy to make solid local backups.
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@jaredbusch said in Opinions on good cloud backup?:
This does nothing to get it offsite, which is the point.
Ah, I missed that requirement.
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hi, how do you emulate the share folder as hard disk in windows 10?
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@kuyaz said in Opinions on good cloud backup?:
hi, how do you emulate the share folder as hard disk in windows 10?
mklink
Give me a minute and I can screenshot a current example I use with CrashPlanPro at a client.
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@jaredbusch I tried mklink but doesn't work with BB.
I didn't know you was referring to CP.Thanks for the info.
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@black3dynamite said in Opinions on good cloud backup?:
What about SpiderOak?
https://spideroak.com/That supports Windows, Mac and Linux.
That’s more of a Dropbox competitor than backup.
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I think I’m just going to be buying CP Pro. I only have around 1.5-2TB (and growing) that’s backed up but I’m at the point where B2 would be about the same price and only get more expensive. I have no Windows systems at home so I can’t do the normal BB.
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I think for now I'm going to go with Crashplan business, mainly because it's 75% off. I'll push this off for a year and save a few bucks.
My user folder and my data drive are just over 500GB so not a huge backup, but still, CP is currently dead and waiting even a week to backup to BB hurts a little.
I do have O365 so I've got 1TB there. I actually store some Windows user folder (docs/music/images/videos) directly into OneDrive. I just don't want to use it as a "backup" in the fuller sense of the word. It's not exactly protected from crypto and would be a huge pain to recover from.
