On-Line Backup Service

[ahab1372]

I read that some services accept hard drives that you mail them for the initial data transfer (you get them back). But that was a while ago, not sure if anyone still offers that.
If you want to combine the best of both worlds, you back up to a NAS and and let the NAS back up to a cloud service.

[HDNitehawk]

8gb per 24 hours, so my 1.6 tb of archived files would take 200 days to load to Just Cloud.

Or is my math wrong. I am glad this was brought up. That wouldn't work for me.

[bob williams]

8gb per 24 hours, so my 1.6 tb of archived files would take 200 days to load to Just Cloud.

Or is my math wrong. I am glad this was brought up. That wouldn't work for me.

Actually I have been at this since Sunday evening. So with that in mind, I have uploaded 126 gig in 4 days (96 hours), that comes out to about 31 gig per day-- which is far greater than than what others are reading. Based on that, I am guessing it would take about 45 days for 1.5 TB---even still, that would be unworkable for most people with that much dada.

[HDNitehawk]

Actually I have been at this since Sunday evening. So with that in mind, I have uploaded 126 gig in 4 days (96 hours), that comes out to about 31 gig per day-- which is far greater than than what others are reading. Based on that, I am guessing it would take about 45 days for 1.5 TB---even still, that would be unworkable for most people with that much dada.

It would be unworkable for me. I want an archive more for old files than current. I think the external might be the better choice.

[bob williams]

It would be unworkable for me. I want an archive more for old files than current. I think the external might be the better choice.

If I were in your shoes, I would agree

[Raid]

You guys are lucky, all of the plans I can find in Aus are both Speed and Data Quota caps. Even the NBN (fibre to the home) is still caped.

I included a link to one of our providers, is this cheap to you guys?

http://www.iinet.net.au/nbn/nbn-plan-residential.html

[EricPvpi]

I backup to a NAS raid locally but have been looking for offline as well. It has a built-in back offline, but the prices seemed a lot higher than a service that runs from a PC.

PC Magazine has a comparison from March. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2288745,00.asp

SOS Online was their Editor's Choice.

[ahab1372]

I have not tried or researched prices, but some NAS boxes (I use Synology) allow back up to the amazon cloud. I do hourly backups to the NAS, and then the NAS could do a daily backup to the cloud.

[Raid]

I have two home NAS units a QNAP TS-409/4TB (now obsolete) and a QNAP TS-410/5.5TB. The TS-410 is my main home NAS for streaming/storing data, I have everything stored on it (Music, Podcasts, Photos, PC & Laptop Backups, Video Surveillance & Videos).

I have one NAS stored in the house and the other in the garage (separate building). The QNAP NAS has a backup/synchronization application that lets me backup selected directories/files on the main NAS to the backup.

I had intended taking the backup NAS to (TS-409) to my girlfriends place, which is not far away. This way I could schedule a re-sync to the backup as required over Internet. Unfortunately my now ex girlfriend doesn't like that idea any more.... there must be a better way.