Clound based storage - Home user

Slyman said:
Yes you provide your own encryption key and it's $50/£36 a year or pay $5 a month

http://www.backblaze.com/speedtest/ will tell you your upload per day based on current connection speed
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Any idea how well these speed test results match actual upload speeds to their servers?

The test itself is obviously just a branded version of speedtest.net. The best upload speed I can manage on their test is 5.20Mb/s. Normal testing via speedtest.net normally sees 8.30Mb/s or slightly over.
 
Free trial is the way to go.

"Note: the maximum bandwidth you can use will always be limited by the speed of your actual upstream Internet connection."
 
So it is sounding like backblaze then, I almost went with carbonite originally! As I spoke about earlier I am going to backup my laptop to my desktop first so that backblaze will technically backup my laptop files as well. In another thread somebody suggested SyncToy to me. This looks pretty good and I think it will do everything I need in terms of synchronizing. It can be found here for anybody interested:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=15155

Although does backblaze allow multiple devices? I know carbonite doesn't.

Thanks
 
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Thanks for the response. So am I going about this the right way? Does anybody else have more than one device that needs backing up? If I go with backblaze I do not really want to pay more for an extra device.

My solution is to use a file synchronization tool such as SyncToy and then sync my laptop files so that they are always on my desktop. It would not be the other way though my desktop would have the laptops file but the laptop would not have all of my other desktop files.

This would get around having to pay extra a month and would just backup my desktop, but it just seems a long way of doing it. What do you guys say?

Thanks. :)
 
I really would not recommend you go with Cloud storage if you are serious about backing up 1Tb on a 1Mbps line, it will literally take you months.

Unless you're on a minimum of FTTC then stick to conventional local backup methods!
 
Any files on desktop will be backed up.
If you have it set on continuous it may take a while to pick up file changes so i click back up now to make it scan.
You may wish to check what it is backing as it errs on the safe side, 3GB Sims 3 game saves for instance !
 
Thanks for the responses. After some checking 1TB is extremely excessive as it includes quit a lot of films which would not need backing up. So with some deleting of rubbish and looking at practicality I could get it down to about 200GB.

I know its quite a bit different but since reading what everyone has said I no way need to backup all 1TB or data. So hopefully this would be more appropriate?

Slyman one of the main reasons I want to go with this solution is because it runs in the background. How come it takes a while? Thats a real pain if it does!!!

Thanks everyone.
 
I still back up local to another internal drive, USB drive and another drive at my parents.

https://help.backblaze.com/entries/...ays-finding-my-external-drive-or-new-files-pc

"Backblaze was designed to be lightweight. There is a small process that slowly scans your computer looking for new/changed files. It can take about an hour or two to scan across all drives for an average user. When you plug in an external drive, it may take Backblaze anywhere from a 1-120 minutes to schedule the files on the external drive to be backed up online.
There is a way to force an immediate rescan. It will slow your computer down for a few minutes while it scans all your drives. You can force the rescan by holding down the ALT key and clicking "Restore Options"
 
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Never knew it could be so cheap for back ups! Do you know if there is anyway that I could exclude a folder from the back ups? I don't want to upload all of my films to the internet!
 
Thanks for all of the responses. I have just installed synctoy on my laptop to back it up to my desktop. However would it be better to back up my laptop to an external hard drive connected to my desktop?

I wanted to create system images of both my laptop and computer as well and store these on the external hard drive. Backblaze can apparently backup external drives as well. This way my laptop files would not interfere with the ones on my desktop. Not that I am sure it would, but just in case.

What do you guys think?

Thanks :)
 
Just found out that backblaze can't be installed on server 2008 R2, so im having to run a XP VM and run it from there (thats the plan anyway)

Edit; that isnt going to work because BackBlaze only allow you to back up physical disks, not network shares, so can't do that.

Has anyone managed to get BackBlaze installed on Server 2008 R2 or WHS2011 (Bought this a couple months back and havent used it!)
 
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[Damien];21322244 said:
I wouldn't trust clowns with your data tbh. They're not well known for their data protection setups.

Funny though...
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I have just set up crashplan and it seems to be backing up fine, maxing out at 3.2Mbps upload, I get 4.8Mbps constant from my VM line.

Are crash plan not reliable then?
 
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