Recommend cloud storage for TB's of data?

Hi guys

What would be your recommendations for cloud storage providers for TBs worth of data?

I've been reading about Cryptolocker lately and it's got me a bit worried, I run Kaspersky which they state blocks all types of Cryptolocker but in general I don't think I'm as secure in backup as I could be.

I have a 4TB NAS on the LAN as backup but I run my business and have all my data on the machines as well as home photos and all music...with high resolution images and 1080p video it stretches well into the TB range.


I bought a Crashplan year subscription last year in the Black Friday sale for next to nothing but I don't know the interface it uses.


I'm using a free Dropbox account for some work at the moment, uploading customers work and sending the link to them to download etc., and find it brilliant.

I love the Dropbox folder on the HDD for putting stuff in and I like the login where I can see everything listed online.

The only problem is for a years storage in the TB range (in the business section) costs £490 at current exchange rates - ouch!!!

I also don't like the fact that they say:
"Plans start at 1TB for five users"
and
"Start with 1,000 GB and get more space as your team grows. If you run out, tell us and we'll increase it for free."

That seems an odd way of doing it, just call it unlimited if that's what it is, otherwise I think if I call to ask for more space there will be a catch.


Is there a reliable, unthrottled, unlimited storage option with an interface that's similar to Dropbox but is cheaper?

I'm probably asking for something that doesn't exist but I'd be interested to hear your recommendations!


Thanks very much.

TL;DR - after cloud storage with a Dropbox like interface on the cheap with TB+ worth of storage - does it exist?

Kaspersky might try their best to block known variants of Cryptolocker. This isn't a lot of help when a new variant comes along.

Most of these cloud service providers are vulnerable to being encrypted by Cryptolocker because they create a folder on the local file system.

The best defence against Cryptolocker is smart usage of your machine & an offline backup to read-only media such as DVDR-DL.

A couple of high capacity providers, just in case:

https://hubic.com/en/
http://www.bitcasa.com/

Thanks very much for that post, that's really helpful!

I hadn't even considered that the local shared folder would be encrypted and then that would be uploaded...that really makes a mess of backup ideas.

I see your point, backing up to a ROM device makes sense but is very time consuming and has it's own drawbacks...what happens if one of the DVDR-DL fails...so I have to back each disc up twice...hmmm

I don't think there's an easy solution to this problem unless the drives are backed up to an external drive which is disconnected and stored. Thing is data is always being written and added to the drives in question so that doesn't help much.

I wonder if setting the online backup so it doesn't automatically sync would help...if they have the option to do that it might work.


Thanks also for the links to the big storage options, price wise they seem to be on a par with Dropbox which I was quite surprised about.

Small point regarding cryptolocker, it might be an idea to remove any mapped drives to your NAS - if you have them. Have your backup software use UNC path to your NAS instead. I read that current versions of crypto locker cannot encrypt over unc paths. Also with Crashplan you should be safe if you are using the version history, you could in theory restore all your files to a last known good version.

Thanks very much for your reply, in all honesty I'm not sure about how the drives are mapped to the NAS, I'll look into it now.

That's a good idea with Crashplan, thanks for the suggestion. I'm thinking more towards local synced storage now if the correct type of software exists, I've made a thread about it here.