Good cloud backup services?

Energize · 18 Feb 2017 at 03:39

Please can someone recommend a good cloud backup service? I'm just looking for something that will automatically backup my backup drive which contains an incremental backup of about 250GB worth of data of all types of files.

AHarvey · 18 Feb 2017 at 10:32

I've just set up an Azure backup system at work on about 30 PC's with more to go.

I've no idea on costs mind you but it's a great system. Install, setup folders to back up, set a time. You can then throttle it between certain times. First backup is the worst but a decent internet speed makes it a lot easier. after that, incremental backups at the designated time. If your PC in on 24/7 you won't even notice it. You can set schedules for backups, X days per year etc. Definitely set the throttle though for regular use as if it is powered off over it's scheduled time it will kick in as soon as the PC is powered back up, and it maxes out any internet connection. Our backups are set to be saved for 10 years.

Grrrrr · 18 Feb 2017 at 10:48

Both are unlimited and approx $5/month:

Crashplan https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/
Pros: Unlimited retention. In addition to cloud backup you can backup to another PC.
Cons: Slow

Backblaze https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html
Pros: Fast. I like their blog (they explain exactly how your data is stored).
Cons: 30 day retention

KIA · 18 Feb 2017 at 19:21

Duplicati + Amazon Cloud Drive or Google Drive.

Rannoch · 18 Feb 2017 at 19:33

What would you guys recommend for a small office? backup folders on PCs and able to share them in the cloud?

AHarvey · 20 Feb 2017 at 10:55

What do you mean by share them in the cloud?

For a small office, i'd be looking at onsite backups x 2 (server + removable media) and either a cloud solution, or have the server also backup to a remote computer at home.

boxman2000 · 20 Feb 2017 at 14:51

Backblaze is great. Been using it for 2 years - I have had to restore data and works for networked drives as well (which some don't). I moved from Carbonite that annoyingly throttled down upload speed which was no good for me. No throttling with Backblaze.

KIA · 20 Feb 2017 at 18:48

boxman2000 said:
works for networked drives as well

Really?

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us...y-don-t-you-backup-network-drives-NAS-drives-

boxman2000 · 21 Feb 2017 at 08:12

KIA said:
Really?

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us...y-don-t-you-backup-network-drives-NAS-drives-

Yup, I have more than one PC on account though

Energize · 21 Feb 2017 at 18:54

boxman2000 said:
Backblaze is great. Been using it for 2 years - I have had to restore data and works for networked drives as well (which some don't). I moved from Carbonite that annoyingly throttled down upload speed which was no good for me. No throttling with Backblaze.

Sounds good then.

I have many gigs of data encrypted into one large volume which will have to be fully reuploaded every backup, so a fast service with unlimited file size is essential.

Brumboy · 22 Feb 2017 at 09:27

Used CrashPlan whilst travelling for a year and it was very good. Renewed it for another year. Their support team is efficient and price very cheap for what you get.

boxman2000 · 22 Feb 2017 at 09:36

Energize said:
Sounds good then.

I have many gigs of data encrypted into one large volume which will have to be fully reuploaded every backup, so a fast service with unlimited file size is essential.

Also it does have two factor authentication, which I forgot to mention.

I have several terabytes backed up and can easily review files on any PC through browser and also do an app which works well.

KIA · 22 Feb 2017 at 12:35

Energize said:
Sounds good then.

I have many gigs of data encrypted into one large volume which will have to be fully reuploaded every backup, so a fast service with unlimited file size is essential.

Bench before you buy. Backblaze has never been able to max my upstream, even with multiple threads.