Cloud based backup service

[SkylinePrints]

Not a fan of cloud based back up.  Too slow often, and too small the rest of the time.

I prefer to keep an in house server to  back up our data.  We have over 10tb of data here, which is a lot for just 2 people.  But we do a ton of design work so our customers files are very important to them and us.  They know if they lose it, we wont!

Brandt, I agree with keeping it in-house for faster access but what happens if the building burns down or you lose the server due to hardware or theft?  20 years in IT, I've seen it happen to many times so I do hope you have some type of off site backup.   Like you said, your customers are dependent on you to have their files. 

[GraphicDisorder]

Not a fan of cloud based back up.  Too slow often, and too small the rest of the time.

I prefer to keep an in house server to  back up our data.  We have over 10tb of data here, which is a lot for just 2 people.  But we do a ton of design work so our customers files are very important to them and us.  They know if they lose it, we wont!

Brandt, I agree with keeping it in-house for faster access but what happens if the building burns down or you lose the server due to hardware or theft?  20 years in IT, I've seen it happen to many times so I do hope you have some type of off site backup.   Like you said, your customers are dependent on you to have their files.

Absolutely we do.  We bring in a 2TB drive for important data once a month and back it up and take it home. 

Everything here is redundant as hell.

My computers all have separate data drives, so if the harder worked OS drive dies or needs re installed no data is effected.  Additionally each computer has a external that copies exactly the internal data drives.  Then the server each night copies each whole computer. 

Pretty safe id say.  Overkill probably.  But that's smarter in my book.  I could loose the sever and the main computer.  Still got the external and a at worst month old copy at home.  Or combinations of that. 

[inkbrigade]

We use backblaze.com for our backups. It's $5 a month for unlimited storage. It backs up in real time over the internet. The cool thing was i had a piece of art, it was only on my computer for about 30 minutes. I thought i was done with it so i trashed it. Then realizing i needed it i was able to pop on their website and sure nuff.. It was there for me to redownload.

Can't say enough good stuff about backblaze.

[GraphicDisorder]

We use backblaze.com for our backups. It's $5 a month for unlimited storage. It backs up in real time over the internet. The cool thing was i had a piece of art, it was only on my computer for about 30 minutes. I thought i was done with it so i trashed it. Then realizing i needed it i was able to pop on their website and sure nuff.. It was there for me to redownload.

Can't say enough good stuff about backblaze.

Its great for smaller files, our issue with online backups is size of files and our internet connection is not the best in East TN.  (10 down/ .896 up)  Which is horrible.  I came from Philly area before this, I had 70 down, and 30 up.  LOL

We have several Terra bytes worth of data, sending it up to the cloud, would take forever on our connection.  I am also not into trusting people with my files. 

Works great for some though.

[mk162]

We have a T1 here, so speed isn't an issue.

I ran into that the other day, somehow a file disappeared after a restart.  I probably saved it in the wrong place and deleted it, but anyway, there is was, on carbonite.  All I did was download it and it saved me a couple hours of work.

[shurloc]

Something that I haven't seen mentioned yet is good old Microsoft SkyDrive... It's a freebie 25GB service for doc, image and other file storage that can be linked to a free hotmail/live account. Not the most efficient system on the planet, but for backing up those, "Once every few months" files it's a great option.

[squeegee]

Just found this company this morning, Myotherdrive.com.  I have to check them out completely but they have up to 10TB plans available.  Price is reasonable $110/yr 500GB, $240/yr 1 TB, multiple machines, NAS, external, thumb, ROM drives supported under one account.  Claimed support for Mac.

http://www.myotherdrive.com/dyn/actions/viewRegister

[royster13]

How are those prices reasonable?.....Carbonite is less that 60.00 a year for unlimited....And what size is enough?....I have 123,533 files and 123 GB of data backed up..

[squeegee]

$60 on carbonite only gets you one machine, no NAS support is offered at all.  I have multiple machines I want to back up, plus a NAS.  Carbonite seems good for single users but is not network friendly so far.

[royster13]

$60 on carbonite only gets you one machine, no NAS support is offered at all.  I have multiple machines I want to back up, plus a NAS.  Carbonite seems good for single users but is not network friendly so far.

It seems I spoke too soon.....Sorry about that!...