Online Backup

Craig321 · 17 Feb 2014 at 20:52

Hi,

Now that I have 20Mbps upload I want to get some online backups going of my unrecoverable files (I'll just store lists of media as that's always gettable).

I was thinking of Amazon Glacier, but then I saw the recovery costs. Let's say I stored 200GB and had to retrieve the whole thing one month due to a disaster, that's $300+ which is ridiculous!

So I'm after about 200GB of storage, as cheap as possible without any retrieval penalties.

Thanks

Craig321 · 17 Feb 2014 at 21:04

Looks good, but a bit of a let down with the software not allowing you to choose which folders

Craig321 · 17 Feb 2014 at 22:04

Something else I'd like as well is for it to restore my file dates rather than just putting today's date on it when you restore. Do any of them do that?

Thanks

Craig321 · 18 Feb 2014 at 19:05

I just went for it, on a bit of a whim. I actually tried the software before as a local backup and was quite impressed, plus the cost is good.

Hopefully the dates do get restored. Not a massive problem if they don't & I can always move if I don't like it after a month.

KIA said:
What upload speeds are you getting to crashplan?

The last time I tried it, it wouldn't go above 100KB/s.

6Mbps at the moment so that's what, 600-700KB/s. Less than half my broadband, but not too bad. Maybe it speeds up if I go afk?

3 days for my initial 200GB

[Edit]
Up to 11Mbps now.

Craig321 · 18 Feb 2014 at 19:24

How's it going to handle my 1.4GB PST? Does it do block backup, or is it going to be retarded about it and try upload 1.4GB every time I open Outlook?

Craig321 · 19 Feb 2014 at 08:12

JWingfield said:
Crashplan will only upload the changes, not the whole file again, it's pretty good about that stuff. It might initially say it has the whole file size to upload but it will re-adjust. It uploads just the changes to my Outlook files and Lightroom catalogue for example, never the whole file again.

Cool, thanks

Craig321 · 4 Aug 2014 at 18:07

A[L]C;26705603 said:
Really annoyed that crashplan does not have thumbnails on their android app

True, but isn't really designed for that sort of storage, I think it's just a nice side effect which they have worked on a little to provide mobile downloads.

MilanoChris said:
Not existing but you could create a symbolic link, that should work (sorry, don't know the Windows term for this).

Same name in Windows

. You can make them using mklink in command prompt.