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

KIA · 17 Feb 2014 at 20:54

https://hubic.com/en/offers/

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

Mynight · 17 Feb 2014 at 21:18

Where's the catch? €10 for 10tb?

Sorry to crash thread but I'm dropping Dropbox thanks for the link

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

#Chri5# · 18 Feb 2014 at 15:16

Crashplan? Costs me £3 to £4 per month (it's 5.99 USD so changes with the £/$ rate) for 275GB of backup.

Will have to try a restore and see how the file stamp is handled.

Raumarik · 18 Feb 2014 at 15:21

+1 for Crashplan

I've got almost 450Gb on it now, wouldn't be without it these days, has saved my bacon once in the past 4 years when an internal HDD went and I discovered my local external backup was corrupt. Since then I've started doing a crashplan back up and a local encrypted crashplan backup too.

Not sure about restoring dates, pretty sure it left the original dates of my files intact though.

KIA · 18 Feb 2014 at 18:56

What upload speeds are you getting to crashplan?

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

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?

JWingfield · 19 Feb 2014 at 07:31

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.

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

boxman2000 · 19 Feb 2014 at 08:18

Backblaze or Carbonite without any shadow of doubt.

Unlimited storage for both, Backblaze works out better value for money.

I've been using Carbonite for the last 3-4 years but am about to switch to Backblaze when I eventually get some drives for my N54L

KIA · 19 Feb 2014 at 11:44

Craig321 said:
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?

I saw similar speeds last night when I tried it in a VM. The 'trust no one' encryption feature is a nice touch. Shame about the lack of PayPal support.

A[L]C · 4 Aug 2014 at 16:55

Really annoyed that crashplan does not have thumbnails on their android app

ChrisD. · 4 Aug 2014 at 17:28

You could get an Office 365 subscription, I think it's £75 a year. This gives you 1TB of storage in Microsoft's One Drive.

meandu229 · 4 Aug 2014 at 17:38

MilanoChris said:
You could get an Office 365 subscription, I think it's £75 a year. This gives you 1TB of storage in Microsoft's One Drive.

You can get for just under £65 a year and it give 5 (home edition) 1tb one drive accounts. So £1.08 per account per month.

A[L]C · 4 Aug 2014 at 17:49

Does it allow the sync of existing folders?

I am looking for a cloud backup at the moment but it needs to have:

sync existing folders
up to £10 a month
at least 200gb space
android application (with thumbnails)

ChrisD. · 4 Aug 2014 at 17:54

A[L]C;26705908 said:
Does it allow the sync of existing folders?

I am looking for a cloud backup at the moment but it needs to have:

sync existing folders
up to £10 a month
at least 200gb space
android application (with thumbnails)

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

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.