Online Backups

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So I have about 50GBs worth of pictures documents etc... I have these on my PC, on a single SATA Drive, I use robocopy to duplicate these up to my file server where again its resides on a RAID 1 array.

This works well, and of course means I have 3 hdd containing the information so I'm fairly safe against single drive failure, but if the house were to burn down etc.. I'd loose the lot.

So, what I want is online backup - ideally I'd like to be able to post off a few DVDs of data rather than doing a 50GB upload and then just sync up the differences over my WAN.

I'd like to be able to shedule the syncs - say 2AM to 6AM Monday to Friday where it can use my full upload (IIRC 1Mbps) which should be fast enough from the server copy so the desktop is off.

Anyone have any recommendations?
 
I havent got any suggestions for an online solution but since you have already worked out your weak point of the backup, is there no way to have an off site backup?

I have 2 x external drives, one in the house and the other lives at my parents house which they bring if they pop over and I backup any changes with syncback. Granted it depends on how often you get access to where ever your offsite storage lives but its still better than nothing.

The MS Skydrive will give you 25GB of storage for free but you have already said you need at least 50.
 
If you're worried about losing it in a fire, just copy it onto another portable drive and keep it in the garden shed or something. Or put it in a sealed capsule and bury it at the end of the garden.
 
I use Carbonite, all data is encrypted before it leaves your PC so no one can access it online. This is the same with most online backup providers.
 
I use Google

Think i pay $20 per annum for 80GB. Infact i'll check BRB

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Select a plan:

No additional storage (free)

20 GB ($5.00 USD per year)

80 GB ($20.00 USD per year) CURRENT PLAN

200 GB ($50.00 USD per year)

400 GB ($100.00 USD per year)

1 TB ($256.00 USD per year)
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I use it for my Photos and Video as a back up. Convert it to a lower res/bitrate and upload as a last resort back up.
It's very good, recommends. cant schedule sync but you can use picasa which can be set to use less bandwisth when necessary
 
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Dappy said:
I use Carbonite, all data is encrypted before it leaves your PC so no one can access it online. This is the same with most online backup providers.
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Carbonite is the first service that popped into my head, probably due to the fact that Leo Laporte used to (still does ?) promote them and tends to be reasonably picky about who he does business with.
 
I use crashplan

Using an external hard drive you the initial backup on your home network and then take the drive to work / friends / family.

It can then backup the changes each day over the internet....simples!
 
I did this by putting a server at my parents. Initial sync was performed direct to the server at my place over the gigabit lan so nice and quick.

Then nightly scheduled backups (via cron) using rsync over an SSH tunnel. Another job ran at 7am to kill the back up if it was overrunning (as it made their ADSL unusable for normal stuff while it was running due to their downstream being slower at the time than my upstream, (1Mb vs 1.3Mb)).

This does mean that (a) you have control of your data, not some third party, and (b) if you house burns down you can go to their place and access the data directly instead of having to get internet access etc and when you replace your kit you can directly resync it onsite and not have to download 50GB of data
 
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