Online Backup
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- Christian0
Arq + Amazon S3 or Amazon Glacier (dirt cheap)
http://www.haystacksoftware.com/…- for reference 1TB in glacier = $120/year. Not great value vs an external drivemonNom
- dbloc0
just set up crashplan....finally pulled the trigger
- dbloc0
does anyone back up their apps & library?
recommended things to back up other than work files/photos/music
- monNom0
^ ideally you partition your HD with all software and OS on one partition, and all storage files on another partition (you need to move application folders like bookmarks to your storage drive). Create a disk image of your OS/Application partition so if anything ever goes wonky, you can just overwrite with a new version from your disk image without obliterating your work. Redo this regularly so software updates get included in your image and you don't have to sit through hours of Windows updates to get back to current. Now get a second HD and set the two up to run as a raid mirrored pair and you're unlikely to have a drive failure ruin you. You should also back up routinely to a remote backup in case your computer ever catches fire/gets in a flood/gets stolen by thieves/shorts out and fries everything/etc. While we're spending money, it's not a bad idea to have a spare computer kicking around either. Nothing worse than being on a rush job and having your mobo/PSU/GFX card die right in the middle of it.
Some suggest backup to optical media, as there's a virus out there called cryptolocker that will encrypt all work files and demand payment or throw away the encryption key. Automatic syncing can infect your remote storage with the virus -- food for thought.
I like and use AllwaySync for backups. I launch it with a nightly service in windows and pass it an argument to run a predefined job. It makes sure everything new from the day is captured to my backup drive/file-server.
- ETM0
Another Crashplan fan after leaving Carbonite.
- trooperbill0
if your cheap like me then comodo cloud is free!
- dbloc1
Well apparently Crashplan is no more for personal backup. They are shifting to business backup only, which is too expensive for personal use. They are recommending moving over to Carbonite. What other options are out there?
- section_0140
Google Drive? Gitlab? I use those two, but I'm not backing up huge archives of images or video.
- ernexbcn0
yeah fuck Crashplan
- Bennn-2
Dropbox is the best.
I tried Google Backup Drive, it won't sync content between computers like Dropbox... Huge let down.
Dropbox is the best option atm. No question.
- dropbox isn't backupernexbcn
- ^formed
- ^utopian
- ^Gnash
- My files are on a server. Its a backup man.Bennn
- https://images-na.ss…Gnash
- spideroak - slower but more securemugwart
- your work files might be there, but what about all your user preferences, all the stuff that goes in the windows registry or library/preferences etc on macOS?ernexbcn
- ^oey
- ernexbcn0
Dropbox isn't a backup, it's just online storage.
A backup solution runs in the background and continuously backs up whatever drives or specific folders you tell it to. You can backup your whole boot drive for example. Dropbox can't do that.
- backblaze seems good
https://www.backblaz…ernexbcn - I've been using BackBlaze for years, works great.fyoucher1
- yep that looks good. Anyone used it?fadein11
- how's backblaze?dbloc
- i like it, don't even notice it's there. Files are easy to access if you need to. Plus they'll send it on disk if ur desperate.fyoucher1
- backblaze seems good
- Nanocephalic1
I came here to evangelise Crashplan, and then I read the note about them discontinuing my home service. I pay $5/mo per device right now, and it looks like they'll charge me $10/device for Pro.
...time passes...
Well, I signed up for Pro. They've added more features, it'll cost me less for the next 15 months and then it becomes Future Me's problem.
- "then it becomes Future Me's problem."oey
- I currently pay $10/mo for two devices. If I keep two devices, the financial break-even point will be July 2019 where i will have paid $220 from today onwards.Nanocephalic
- If I cut down to a single device before the price goes up to $20/mo, then I've saved money overall due to the discounts this year.Nanocephalic
- jaylarson0
I think I'm going to switch to Backblaze now that Crashplan won't provide basic backup. $60 a year and unlimited backup
- oey0
Luckily I don't need an Online Backup so far...
Would like though, it would mean more work.But what about SpiderOak?
- BusterBoy1
Why would you bother backing up online? So cheap and easy to do offline. I just have two separate external drives where I do alternate backups every few days and store in separate locations.
Simples!
- Agree.
Use Dropbox for temp file access and external HD full backup of everything.Hayzilla - Not everyone can store external HD's in separate locations. I take it you mean 1 at home and one at office or something?microkorg
- ... if both are at home and you get burgled or theres a fire then you lose everything.microkorg
- yep fire, hurricane, flood, crazy girlfriend, some shit that'll never happen but does.fyoucher1
- That's why you keep one in a fire safe and the other on your person at all times.mg33
- doing alternate backups "every few days" isn't doing backups, sorryernexbcn
- plus it's not a chore, you pay a service and it runs on the background, copying files manually or managing drives like you say isn't a proper backupernexbcn
- you can back up to a fire safe?dbloc
- or are you pulling the drive out of the safe to backup every other day? seems like a lot of work.dbloc
- Unless someone takes your firesafe. Then you're screwed.fyoucher1
- cat pee. A friend lost his hard drive because his cat peed on it. Cat's can't pee on clouds.Beeswax
- This is perfectly suited for my backup regime. Granted it's not a one size fits all. But some over complicate this process.BusterBoy
- Yet, you seem to be over complicating it....ETM
- ha - how is cloud storage overcomplicating it - it's the best solutionfadein11
- Agree.
- Gnash0
i'm just going to hire monks to illuminate my daily endeavours
- ernexbcn2
@BusterBoy online backup is my second backup, of course you backup locally, but having a remote one is even better. Your home/office might get burglarized, burnt down, flooded. etc.
- nb0
A couple simple questions:
What's the big deal with Crashplan not offering "consumer" service? Can y'all not afford $10/month? It still seems remarkably cheap for the service.
So, $5 or $10 per month, is that really the difference? I guess I don't understand why they called the tiers Consumer and Small Business. What difference does it make?
- I ask because I'm about to sign up for something.nb
- And it seems to me that $10/month for "Small Business" means maybe that they are thinking about long-term sustainability. Which is good, yes?nb
- I don't need the cheapest service, I need the one I can count on.nb
- problem is I'm not trusting a company anymore that decides to fuck a huge chunk of their customer base on a whim, so I moved to backblazeernexbcn
- I think you should be asking yourself, what makes this better since it's twice as expensive, not the other way around.fyoucher1
- Ok, that's a valid argument, but I can see reasons for them to do it. Plus they offered a deal with a partner, etc. That's pretty good, imhonb
- @fyoucher1 Yeah, exactly. What makes Small Business better?nb
- In a way, I like the idea of being on a different service to all the people who are only interested in the cheapest solution.nb
- Are you on a different service? Or do you just get the privilege of paying twice as much?fyoucher1
- I mean they might be offering better customer service but how often do you need c/s on your backup.fyoucher1