Any Experiences with SOS Online Backup?
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I think that SOS' comparison list is very misleading. Their "lowest price" doesn't imply that all of those features are included. I think AJ might have let the marketing lead him to combine the very expensive business class features with the personal plan pricing to come up with something very different than what, I feel, it actually costs.
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@thanksaj said:
The chart I'm seeing on their website says the personal plan supports NAS backup. See the first two graphics I posted.
What's the link? When I look at that chart, it doesn't tell me that.
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http://www.sosonlinebackup.com/features/
Little more than halfway down. Okay, maybe I'm misreading it. Gonna see if there is a live chat option on their site.
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@thanksaj said:
http://www.sosonlinebackup.com/features/
Little more than halfway down. Okay, maybe I'm misreading it. Gonna see if there is a live chat option on their site.
I found it. It's not under the personal plans, so not sure why you are associating it. That's just the general features and lists all of the business features on it. The "lowest price" is simply the lowest price. Since it is a list of "all features" you can safely assume that the lowest price does not include all features or it makes no sense.
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It's clear written to be a useless chart and misleading. That, alone, is a good reason to avoid them. Their bottom price that you can get is $7.99 and doesn't ever tell you what features you do or do not get for that price. Horrible site. If you need to chat to find out what they offer, they know they don't have a good product and are trying to hide it.
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I know backblaze can backup a mounted CIFS share. I do it with my ownCloud setup right now.
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@coliver said:
I know backblaze can backup a mounted CIFS share. I do it with my ownCloud setup right now.
How is that? Not sure what I'm using for the protocol, although I'm guessing it's CIFS...
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@thanksaj said:
@coliver said:
I know backblaze can backup a mounted CIFS share. I do it with my ownCloud setup right now.
How is that? Not sure what I'm using for the protocol, although I'm guessing it's CIFS...
The only downside is that you need a windows / mac computer to be running for the sync to work.
There is no direct integration between Backblaze and Linux right now... although I hope they consider it in the future.
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@coliver said:
I know backblaze can backup a mounted CIFS share. I do it with my ownCloud setup right now.
That's got to be new, it could not do that previously.
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@thanksaj said:
How is that? Not sure what I'm using for the protocol, although I'm guessing it's CIFS...
How do you not know? How are you mounting it?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
I know backblaze can backup a mounted CIFS share. I do it with my ownCloud setup right now.
That's got to be new, it could not do that previously.
Really? I'm pretty sure I've got it setup that way. My computer at home is off or I would remote in and check.
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@coliver said:
There is no direct integration between Backblaze and Linux right now... although I hope they consider it in the future.
Most vendors avoid this because Linux doesn't have the strict "server" and "desktop" designations and they don't want massive enterprise storage systems being backed up from Linux for $5/mo.
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@coliver said:
Really? I'm pretty sure I've got it setup that way. My computer at home is off or I would remote in and check.
That's what rules out all of these products for most people. They need to back up SMB/CIFS shares but they can't. I don't know any product in this category that does that.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
Really? I'm pretty sure I've got it setup that way. My computer at home is off or I would remote in and check.
That's what rules out all of these products for most people. They need to back up SMB/CIFS shares but they can't. I don't know any product in this category that does that.
Hmmm, I will look into it when I get home. I know it isn't using webdav as I haven't been able to make that work with Windows 8.
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It's iSCSI that works around the issue. Because that makes it a block device, just like any local disk.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
How is that? Not sure what I'm using for the protocol, although I'm guessing it's CIFS...
How do you not know? How are you mounting it?
I'm a little confused as well... how are you accessing your files? With a UNC or via a mounted share?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
How is that? Not sure what I'm using for the protocol, although I'm guessing it's CIFS...
How do you not know? How are you mounting it?
Just as a network drive in Windows.
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@thanksaj said:
Just as a network drive in Windows.
He means CIFS. Anyone who doesn't know what shares are and protocols are is using SMB/CIFS. There is no way he's installed NFS and is using that.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
Just as a network drive in Windows.
He means CIFS. Anyone who doesn't know what shares are and protocols are is using SMB/CIFS. There is no way he's installed NFS and is using that.
Is NFS working for Windows? The last time I used it I couldn't get the connection to be stable.
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@coliver said:
Is NFS working for Windows? The last time I used it I couldn't get the connection to be stable.
Not well but it has been built into the OS for a long time. Like iSCSI, it's super crappy and should never be used. But they are both there.
