which cloud backup to use

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Hey,

What cloud storage do you guys use to backup your work data? I need to backup about 50-100GB of data from work QNAP NAS unit. Which cloud storage would you guys recommend I use? I plan on doing the initial big backup over the festive break.
Thanks.
 
Syncback SE Pro /S3/Dropbox/Google Drive/etc

i'm currently using Hubic (10TB for £5odd pence) but is a long winded process as they throttle upload speeds and is painfully slow!

ARQ Good to have?? Might invest as Syncback does not encrypt data etc.
 
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Does Crashplan do folder backups?

Which ones for photography (clients) point of view for archive?
and wont cost the earth to download them again.

at the mo my lightroom folder hits 1TB
the clients folder is over 300GB.


Google Nearline Amazon Glacier Amazon S3


Undecided

Idealy id like to do a monthly backup and forget about the RAW files etc.
 
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Mp4 said:
Does Crashplan do folder backups?
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Yes.

I'd avoid Crashplan though. The upload speeds are appalling, mostly down to the over zealous dedup engine but even if you disable that the uploads are horrid.

Also I know a few people who were unable to restore data when they needed to. Personally I didn't have that problem but hearing about that plus the crappy upload speeds meant I switched to Backblaze.
 
A friend that I recommend CrashPlan to recently, told me he had uploaded 80GB in under 24 hours, over a 4G internet connection! That seems perfectly fine to me. I've been using it for 8-9 years, and have zero complaints. Even if the upload isn't maxing out your upload bandwidth, so what, as long as it is able to keep your stuff backed up?

In my opinion upload speed is nice, but doesn't trump every other benefit that an online backup product offers (of which price and reliability would be the top two). CrashPlan consistently beats every other online backup system in reviews (I always check them as I want to make sure something better than CrashPlan hasn't come along).
 
I've never seen uploads anything like that. I've been a Virgin Media (12Mbps upstream) and BT (20Mbps) customer and never saw more than about 4Mbps upstream. Maybe they've improved things since I was a customer.
 
the-evaluator said:
Yes.

I'd avoid Crashplan though. The upload speeds are appalling, mostly down to the over zealous dedup engine but even if you disable that the uploads are horrid.

Also I know a few people who were unable to restore data when they needed to. Personally I didn't have that problem but hearing about that plus the crappy upload speeds meant I switched to Backblaze.
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If you disable deduplication and versioning temporarily, you get full speed upload. I did anyway. Had all 3.3TB of my data backed up in a few weeks of just running it overnight, every night.

I love CrashPlan, can't complain for £3.50-ish a month.

Mp4 said:
Does Crashplan do folder backups?

Which ones for photography (clients) point of view for archive?
and wont cost the earth to download them again.

at the mo my lightroom folder hits 1TB
the clients folder is over 300GB.


Google Nearline Amazon Glacier Amazon S3


Undecided

Idealy id like to do a monthly backup and forget about the RAW files etc.
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Careful with Amazon. There's one service, which I think might have been Glacier, that would have cost me a few hundred £ to restore my whole data set if I lost it all. Just make sure you check the transfer/download costs as well as the actual storage costs.

There's also Backblaze to consider. Can't comment myself, but have heard it's good.

CrashPlan is free to recover stuff (as long as you're still paying your $5 a month of course).
 
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When did you try? I fairly recently finished uploading all my data to them a few months ago and was getting full 20Mbps upload with dedup and versioning off.
 
i've given up with CrashPlan

2.1TB 5+ months!

Untill i get my NAS running next year i don't see the point at the moment :(

So still looking for offsite backup (I have Amazon Prime) but the T&C states its not for commercial purposes (wich i store clients photos)
 
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