Best Cloud Storage solution for NAS?

Richdog · 13 Feb 2017 at 13:04

Hi guys,

I just bought a Synology and am looking for a good and cost efficient cloud storage solution to safeguard my data. My requirements will be:

I need constant daily incremental backups with unlimited storage with a "pay for what you use" model.
I will likely be doing very few restores, probably only in an emergency situation such as accidental deletions or drive/NAS failure

I have been looking at:

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Crashplan https://www.google.ch/url?sa=t&rct=..._E92SkUxdPr1lDsashUnCQ&bvm=bv.146786187,d.ZGg

Seems to be cheap and popular with unlimited storage.

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Backblaze B2 https://www.backblaze.com/b2/

Very cheap, but your data is stored only in the US with no EU redundancy. Not ideal.

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Microsoft Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/backup

More geared towards larger businesses, judging from the pricing and features.

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Amazon S3 / Glacier: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

Cheap but simple. Designed for those who only rarely restore, but on the hand restores seem "glacially" slow.
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So, any advice on a suitable and flexible cloud backup for a NAS without paying too much would be most appreciated.

bledd · 13 Feb 2017 at 16:10

How much data do you want to backup? I just go for local HDD backups, but my upload speed is poor. ~25Mbps

RSR · 13 Feb 2017 at 16:54

If you have Amazon Prime, I can highly recommend Amazon Cloud Drive (Unlimited Storage) as it works really well with the Synology Cloud Sync feature. As I personally use a combo Hyper Backup and Cloud Sync to backup to Amazon and Onedrive. One drive is very slow though.

Richdog · 13 Feb 2017 at 17:50

bledd;30499460 said:
How much data do you want to backup? I just go for local HDD backups, but my upload speed is poor. ~25Mbps

I guess minimum 2TB, rising as I get more stuff. I have Gigabit up/down fibre so speeds aren't a big issue.

EDIT - Just did a test and it was 58MB/s down and 45MB/s up.

RSR;30499624 said:
If you have Amazon Prime, I can highly recommend Amazon Cloud Drive (Unlimited Storage) as it works really well with the Synology Cloud Sync feature. As I personally use a combo Hyper Backup and Cloud Sync to backup to Amazon and Onedrive. One drive is very slow though.

Isn't that just for photos or videos?

KIA · 13 Feb 2017 at 18:42

Duplicati + Amazon Cloud Drive or OVH Object Storage.

https://www.duplicati.com/download

CloudBerry is another option.

Rroff · 13 Feb 2017 at 18:45

Richdog;30499835 said:
Isn't that just for photos or videos?

Think you can do anything though it promotes pictures and videos, I've only used the free allowance I get with Amazon prime but I've a few non-media files on there.

RSR · 14 Feb 2017 at 09:22

Richdog said:
Isn't that just for photos or videos?

You have two options with Amazon Cloud Drive:

1. As part of your Amazon Prime subs, you get unlimited storage for your photos and 5 GB on video and file data.

2. Another option they offer is for a extra £55 a year, its unlimited storage of photo, video and other data.

rtho782 · 14 Feb 2017 at 15:34

I have 19.5TB on amazon cloud drive, it works with more than just photos and videos.

From my fileserver (hosted in datacentre) with a commandline client ( http://rclone.org/ ) I can get over 900mbs upload to it with enough threads.