Cloud Backup Solutions

Soldato
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Looking for a recommendation guys.

Parents have two iMacs. My mum is an artist and her iMac has about 600GB worth of media on it. I have set them up so that both iMacs are backing up to external HDs but at the moment we have not covered a scenario of theft/fire etc.

Is there a decent cloud backup service that could run in the background and automatically back up their data? It doesn't have to be the entire computer, just their user folders on the hard drive would be sufficient. Bearing in mind we're talking about a TB in total and it's likely to increase.

They're happy to shell out around £10/month if that's what it takes. So far I've found CrashPlan but was wondering what else is out there and if anyone on here has personal experience? I'm looking to chip in as my Dad's iMac has about 200GB of RAW files from my holidays/travelling etc.

Many thanks :)
 
Right, looks like Crashplan is the way forward.

Is it worth making sure their broadband provider doesn't have any bandwidth limits on upstreaming or will it be fine? I think they're with BT Infinity. I presume you can tell it to do the initial backup over a long period of time?

Cheers guys
 
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