Clound based storage - Home user

wildest_jjk said:
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?
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It won't make much difference. It might be wise backing up to the external drive if the backup is big and you have limited space on the main drive.
 
KIA said:
It won't make much difference. It might be wise backing up to the external drive if the backup is big and you have limited space on the main drive.
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Thank you for the response. The main reason I asked is because I was worried that as soon as I sync my laptop files to a folder on my PC, they might affect it. Programs might read the files etc.

I have no issue with hard drive space but it was more the fact that system image files are quite large as well.

But from the sounds of it, it's fine to sync all files and system images to my desktop and upload it to backblaze :)
 
Ryan111 said:
Are crash plan not reliable then?
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As reliable as guys that get to work in a mini that's far too small for the 10 people they manage to cram in...

Also custard pies don't go well with server equipment.

Edit: See 'Clound based storage' if anyone's wondering what the hell I'm talking about...
 
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[Damien];21324737 said:
As reliable as guys that get to work in a mini that's far too small for the 10 people they manage to cram in...

Also custard pies don't go well with server equipment.

Edit: See 'Clound based storage' if anyone's wondering what the hell I'm talking about...
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Is this supposed to be some hilarious reference to the OP’s misspelling of cloud in the thread subject? If so it doesn’t really work because clound != clown!

If there’s some other worthwhile point you’re trying to make then I apologise.
 
bremen1874 said:
Is this supposed to be some hilarious reference to the OP’s misspelling of cloud in the thread subject? If so it doesn’t really work because clound != clown!

If there’s some other worthwhile point you’re trying to make then I apologise.
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It was a very tedious pun on clound sounding a bit like clowned. I was bored... :)
 
Thankyou for the response. One final thing would backblaze store system images? Should I just use the standard windows program? Or are there any programs that will automate the process, similar to backblaze so either when there has been program changes or just constantly create them.

Thanks :)
 
wildest_jjk said:
Thankyou for the response. One final thing would backblaze store system images? Should I just use the standard windows program? Or are there any programs that will automate the process, similar to backblaze so either when there has been program changes or just constantly create them.
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You could use Windows 7 Backup to create an image on a weekly basis and have Backblaze upload it to the cloud but is it really a good idea if you only have 1Mb/s up?
 
Probably not I am just thinking of the best process to do. I have an external hard drive which I guess I could save the image files for my laptop and desktop to. Then I just use backblaze for all of my files. Would that be better?
 
wildest_jjk said:
Probably not I am just thinking of the best process to do. I have an external hard drive which I guess I could save the image files for my laptop and desktop to. Then I just use backblaze for all of my files. Would that be better?
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Sounds good, at least until you get a faster connection (FTTC, etc).
 
Anyone know any other reliable providers that do ~300GB for £5 month max and can be installed on a server 2008 or whs2011
 
KIA said:
Sounds good, at least until you get a faster connection (FTTC, etc).
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And in fact KIA you have made me realise! What is the point in buying and uploading to backblaze now when I am upgrade to FTTC in a month or two. This will give me about 7 times the upload speed I have now!

Thanks everybody :)
 
After reading this thread I've started the free trial of Backblaze. I've been thinking about signing up for PC World's 'KNOWHOW Cloud' which is about £30/year but Backblaze seems like a good option so I'll give that a try.

I'm a bit worried about having my data stored on the cloud with only my username and password to protect it from being accessed by anyone on the internet. I see Backblaze allows you to generate a secure key, but I'm worried that if I lose it my online backup will be useless. Any ideas?
 
wildest_jjk said:
And in fact KIA you have made me realise! What is the point in buying and uploading to backblaze now when I am upgrade to FTTC in a month or two. This will give me about 7 times the upload speed I have now!

Thanks everybody :)
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"Backup, before you wish you had." :)
 
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potato58 said:
I'm a bit worried about having my data stored on the cloud with only my username and password to protect it from being accessed by anyone on the internet. I see Backblaze allows you to generate a secure key, but I'm worried that if I lose it my online backup will be useless. Any ideas?
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The user’s private key which is stored safely in our datacenter is protected by a password that is highly guarded. But for some users this is not good enough and we allow the user to secure this file with their own password. When this is done it is impossible to access the data without the user’s password. Unfortunately, this also means we can’t help the user if they ever forget this password so we don’t recommend it for most users.
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http://blog.backblaze.com/2008/11/12/how-to-make-strong-encryption-easy-to-use/

Secure it with a super duper password.
 
wildest_jjk said:
Correct me if I am wrong. Does backblaze not encrypt data when a user downloads to restore? I am sure I read that somewhere!
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The actual data transfer is probably encrypted. The basic level of storage encryption keeps the private key file on the Backblaze system.
 
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