Cloud Backup

teaboy5 · 7 Dec 2017 at 22:35

Hey, just wondering what cloud services folks are using for the MAC's? I have a friend who runs a business and uses time machine to backup to an external drive, but he wants to move to something cloud based so he doesn't have to change drives or worry about fire etc.

I was thinking crashplan or backblaze.

Feek · 8 Dec 2017 at 08:05

I spent a fair time looking into these a couple of years ago and went with Backblaze due to various reviews comparing the products. It's working well for me, I've never actually needed to retrieve any files but I do an occasional test restore just to make sure it's working OK. Speed is good and it really is a case of set it and forget about it.

ChrisD. · 8 Dec 2017 at 08:41

I backup to my NAS and then sync that backup folder to my OneDrive.

MacRS4 · 8 Dec 2017 at 11:38

I have about 1.5Tb of stuff up in BackBlaze and it works very well. It's not that configurable in that it tries to do too much for you for my liking - I.e. Selects your whole boot volume for example.

I've ended up setting up a specific BackBlaze volume that has point in time backups in it. Works well - performance is pretty good too. I'll often see uploads of 100Mbps+ on my 1Gb line, so it's not throttled massively at their end, if at all.

Feek · 8 Dec 2017 at 14:52

@MacRS4 Funnily enough, that's what I like about Backblaze. I've removed all the exclusions and have it backing up absolutely everything - I've got nearly 5Tb of data backed up there.

MacRS4 · 9 Dec 2017 at 19:10

Aha. Cool. I guess I could - I mean with a 1Gbps up it shouldn't take long

I think I'm a bit old-fashioned, I like fixed point in time snapshots for my active data. No reason I couldn't do both I guess.

teaboy5 · 10 Dec 2017 at 02:01

Thanks will tell him to give maybe give backblaze a go and see how he gets on.