Anybody use crashplan?

mr tommo

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I want an online backup for weddings despite having 2 offsite backups already, I'd like an online solution. Hopefully it will never need to be used and will be for emergencies only.

Currently have 1TB of data to upload. Then every time I do a wedding it will be around 50-70GB to upload.

We are on fibre but I've read that it doesn't really make much difference, it'll still be slow. Any other wedding photographers use Crashplan and how long does each wedding generally take to upload?
 
Depending which fibre you're on then you'll have different upload speeds. Up to 10 or 20Mbit/s if it's BT Infinity/FTTC fibre or if it's Virgin then it could be anything between 1Mbit/s to just over 10Mbit/s

As for how long it takes, you can get rough ideas using something like this:

http://www.numion.com/calculators/time.html

Just punch in the amount of data and you'll see some times calculated for different speeds. There's other download calculators out there but that's just the first one I clicked on. I know it says download and not upload but as long as you use the right speed then it's basically the same.

Ultimately it will take a while so it's just something to leave going overnight or something.

If it's just a last resort emergency thing then it might be worth reading the fine print to see if there's any limitations like how long they keep data or how much you can upload in one go etc.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I do, but their upload is painfully slow, I am going to use someone else when my sub expires.
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Any idea where you will be heading? Ideally I would like online backup directly from NAS. Just realised that L:ivedrive offer this for an extra £5 per month

Phal said:
Depending which fibre you're on then you'll have different upload speeds. Up to 10 or 20Mbit/s if it's BT Infinity/FTTC fibre or if it's Virgin then it could be anything between 1Mbit/s to just over 10Mbit/s

As for how long it takes, you can get rough ideas using something like this:

http://www.numion.com/calculators/time.html

Just punch in the amount of data and you'll see some times calculated for different speeds. There's other download calculators out there but that's just the first one I clicked on. I know it says download and not upload but as long as you use the right speed then it's basically the same.

Ultimately it will take a while so it's just something to leave going overnight or something.

If it's just a last resort emergency thing then it might be worth reading the fine print to see if there's any limitations like how long they keep data or how much you can upload in one go etc.
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Thanks, that's very useful.



So it may be around 9 days with best case scenario.
 
May also be worth checking to see if you have any limits on your broadband. Some have no limits, some have peaktime limits, some like my Virgin cable connection will throttle you for a day if you exceed certain peaktime limits etc.

If you know someone else with a decent connection that doesn't mind you using up a bit of their traffic you could just buy a NAS and keep it at their house and upload new stuff there. You can do the bulk initial copy over your local network and take it to their house and then you just need to upload the new stuff to them :)

If they're also photographers then they could keep a copy at your place and then it's even? :D
 
Yeah I tried it out but even with 6Mb/s up it was using a fraction of that. They obviously don't have enough bandwidth to go round.
 
I tried Backblaze and after only managing 50GB out of 500GB in 3 weeks, I gave up. It was syncing with my WD MyBook and the disk was spinning constantly, and my computer was on at all times.

Huge drain on electricity and devices. You might be better off sending your data to get backed up, but can you trust a stranger?
 
I had an email yesterday telling me my onedrive account was up to 10TB now and would soon be unlimited. I have a pathetic internet connection here, but the uploads seem to be pretty snappy when I have the connection to support it!
 
nolimit said:
I tried Backblaze and after only managing 50GB out of 500GB in 3 weeks, I gave up. It was syncing with my WD MyBook and the disk was spinning constantly, and my computer was on at all times.

Huge drain on electricity and devices. You might be better off sending your data to get backed up, but can you trust a stranger?
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That's a no go then.
 
I may have mentioned this in another thread, but Microsoft's OneDrive gives 1 TB to all Office subscribers, so essentially that's about £60 a year for Office and the storage. Plus, this week they upgraded it to unlimited storage, rolling out in the US first (although apparently you can sign up elsewhere anyway). I believe there's a 10 gb file size restriction, but that shouldn't affect most people.

I upgraded to a Mac earlier this year and, whilst I'm still working it out properly, I've already had to come to terms with the more limited base storage. So I back up all my photos and other files to a NAS and that then backs up to my OneDrive account. I'm on Virgin fibre so it is pretty quick - often quicker than copying files over to the NAS.
 
abbotsmike said:
I had an email yesterday telling me my onedrive account was up to 10TB now and would soon be unlimited. I have a pathetic internet connection here, but the uploads seem to be pretty snappy when I have the connection to support it!
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The_Abyss said:
I may have mentioned this in another thread, but Microsoft's OneDrive gives 1 TB to all Office subscribers, so essentially that's about £60 a year for Office and the storage. Plus, this week they upgraded it to unlimited storage, rolling out in the US first (although apparently you can sign up elsewhere anyway). I believe there's a 10 gb file size restriction, but that shouldn't affect most people.

I upgraded to a Mac earlier this year and, whilst I'm still working it out properly, I've already had to come to terms with the more limited base storage. So I back up all my photos and other files to a NAS and that then backs up to my OneDrive account. I'm on Virgin fibre so it is pretty quick - often quicker than copying files over to the NAS.
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That seems pretty good to me! I will check it out :)
 
I use crashplan. it is painfully slow but a good service for the price plan.
I store all my photos on my local HDD which then gets backed up to a synology which then backs-up everything to crashplan via the headless client.
 
I got to my dad's every week, I am tempted just start a routine and using a couple of 2TB Western Digital drive and update it weekly and then leave it with him, swap it round every week.
 
One of the better off site solution I feel is the Amazon S3 or Glacier. At work we have the web/marketing team data saved to Synology box and this is sheduled backup over the weekend to Amazon Glacier. Initially it took about 2 weeks to backup 2TB of data, but since it is NAS it didn't require power from the computer. All it needed was net connection.

Cost to backup is free, however you only pay if you were to restore/download the data. I think it will cost us about £800-1000 for 2TB of data. Which is nothing in the event of disaster.
 
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