One-time upload of 300GB

[Azuse05]

Got any university student children/cousins/nieces/nephews/friends children? Uni halls usually have pretty quick internet, my upload is nearly 100Mbps - reasonably quick even for 300GB.

Most of us on Janet get capped at 10meg as a student, unless you're on some research project. It's still way faster than the 1.2meg upload at home though

Staff on the other hand tend to not get capped at all, giving them between 350-400meg during the day and 1gb in the quieter evenings.

 

[The Belgain]

Well, just a quick update - after looking at all the online options (including cost of getting an internet connection with fast enough upload that I could realistically get the data into the cloud), I've concluded that cloud backup just isn't practical for me.

Instead I'm doing to go for the approach of having:
-- Regular rsync backups to a RAID5 fileserver at home. That means all irreplaceable data will be on two places at home, one of which has RAID redundancy.
-- Less frequent backups to an external USB drive, which I'll leave at work. That means that in the event that the house gets burgled/burned down/flooded then I'll have a relatively up to date backup at work.

That's probably a solution that works pretty well for most people I'd have thought. Obviously if you have enough irreplaceable data that it would require multiple drives for the off-site storage then that's probably not a great plan.

 

[AbsenceJam]

I think it's well worth getting the bulk of your data online. After you do it once it's not so difficult to move between services or synchronise with what you have locally. Lots of providers offer import services if you send them a drive.
In addition to my local practices I store all my personal files + music online on my own OVH server and on Amazon Glacier (also free Dropbox for Google Drive accounts for some of it), costs me about £20 a month in total and gives me a server to use for all manner of other things too.

300GB isn't too bad to upload over the course of 6 weeks or so if you have say 2Mb up and leave it going. Sort of size where I'd go with Google Drive or one of the BackBlaze/CrashPlan type providers unless I had other needs.