Which cloud backup software & provider do I need?

Quartz · 24 Oct 2018 at 13:11

I want to back up my data offsite. I have approx 1 TB of data, most of which does not change. I currently back it up to a WSE box which itself is backed up to an external HDD. I periodically take backups of the data on external USB HDDs which get stored off-site.

But I want an automated offsite backup. I have fibre broadband with 20 Mbps upstream. Because some of the data could be sensitive, I need the data to be encrypted at my end before being backed up. The backup software needs to cope with interruptions - my router reboots daily, for instance - and it will take a week or so to do the initial backup.

I leave my PC on 24/7 so later backups need to happen automatically in the small hours.

Restoring is equally important. I need to be able to restore at the file level. Most trivially I'll need to download my spreadsheet of license keys and the Windows and Windows Server ISOs.

So, which software and which cloud provider should I use?

chili · 24 Oct 2018 at 17:04

someone once recommended carbonite to me, i never did bother to set it up. Personally try the free stuff first and see how you get on.

Grrrrr · 24 Oct 2018 at 19:14

Backblaze does all you ask for at a good price

tribz · 25 Oct 2018 at 14:53

I use Backblaze for the storage and Cloudberry for the backup.

Nate--IRL-- · 26 Oct 2018 at 16:28

If you have Office 365 and Onedrive, the free Veeam windows agent will backup directly to Onedrive.

Nate

bledd · 27 Oct 2018 at 08:49

First off, I'd be exploring why does your router reboot daily.

Anything more than a couple of times a year max is bad.

thewanted · 27 Oct 2018 at 09:44

Nate--IRL-- said:
If you have Office 365 and Onedrive, the free Veeam windows agent will backup directly to Onedrive.

Nate

The free agent from Veeam won't backup to OneDrive. You need to pay for a license.

Does anyone know of an alternative that's free? I thought it might be possible to map a OneDrive account as an SMB share but I haven't managed to work out how yet.

Quartz · 27 Oct 2018 at 10:09

bledd said:
First off, I'd be exploring why does your router reboot daily.

Because I've set it to do that.

bledd · 27 Oct 2018 at 10:25

Raumarik · 27 Oct 2018 at 11:22

Won't that impact on speed over time? Your line will never stabilise and max out?

bremen1874 · 27 Oct 2018 at 11:24

If it’s a clean reboot then DLM shouldn’t be triggered.

Raumarik · 27 Oct 2018 at 11:24

I use google backup and sync. Although it's working I have had a few problems with non-graphics files, it's great for photographs but other stuff not so much. The client also doesn't have that many options for how often to check files have changed etc it's more or less doing it on the fly, which isn't great if you're editing things.

crashplan was so much better :-/

Nate--IRL-- · 27 Oct 2018 at 11:36

thewanted said:
The free agent from Veeam won't backup to OneDrive. You need to pay for a license.
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Yes it will my laptop and work PC are backed up using the free Agent.

Nate

thewanted · 27 Oct 2018 at 11:37

Nate--IRL-- said:
Yes it will my laptop and work PC are backed up using the free Agent.

Nate

I installed it a few hours ago, and when I chose OneDrive as the backup destination it told me that it wasn't available in the free version

Nate--IRL-- · 27 Oct 2018 at 11:39

Chose the File Level backup when setting up the backup job and select system state on the next page. It definitely works.

Nate

Nate--IRL-- · 27 Oct 2018 at 11:42

Well I'm an idiot, it is system state or C:\ only, apologies.

Nate

thewanted · 27 Oct 2018 at 11:54

Nate--IRL-- said:
Well I'm an idiot, it is system state or C:\ only, apologies.

Nate

No worries, although in this case I wish I was the one who was wrong! I think it might be possible to use the SharePoint SDK to upload the files with PowerShell, so I'm digging a bit deeper into that.

https://gist.github.com/asadrefai/ecfb32db81acaa80282d

EDIT: I'm testing out the SharePoint Migration Tool, and it's looking very promising so far!

easyrider · 27 Oct 2018 at 12:05

https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/

Feek · 29 Oct 2018 at 12:23

Didn't Crashplan kill all their non business accounts recently?

I use Backblaze for about 5Tb of data.

easyrider · 29 Oct 2018 at 14:38

Feek said:
Didn't Crashplan kill all their non business accounts recently?

I use Backblaze for about 5Tb of data.

They did but if you migrated to business you got it for $2.50 per month for the ne t 18 months...works for me as I just backup the main backup server...

I have two servers...one serves the network for storage nothing is saved locally to pcs and laptops that I don’t want to lose it all points to the server...the backup server mirrors the main server and crashplan backs up the shares of the backup server.