Anybody use crashplan?

[mr tommo]

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?

 

[mr tommo]

I do, but their upload is painfully slow, I am going to use someone else when my sub expires.

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

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.

Thanks, that's very useful.



So it may be around 9 days with best case scenario.

 

[mr tommo]

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!

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.

That seems pretty good to me! I will check it out

 

[mr tommo]

Just as an update to this.

I decided to trial SquirellSave at £5.05 p/m. Currently scanning files but I'll let you know upload speeds once the backup starts. Won't backup directly from NAS drives but I backup from Nas to External HD, then External to Cloud.