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mctriviamctrivia Posts: 3,772
edited 2014-06-04 07:35 in General Discussion
To prevent data crashes I started using backblaze a while back. The service is excelent. It runs in the background and keeps everything backed up all the time(even my server rig at 2TB of data). The cost is only $5/month or $50/year. I just noticed they are now offering a get a month for free promo now(you and me both for you signing up)

https://secure.backblaze.com/r/000ko4

To cut down on my bills I am currently looking to cut down my house hold subscription to just 1 computer(the server) and am looking for a free or 1 time payment option that will let me backup my other computers(wether on the local network or the world wide web) to my server which I will keep backing up to back blaze. So far I have tried TrueSafe. It is $30 program which seems to do everything I want(except backups are weekly instead of instant) but I may have found a bug in the program as it seems to be crashing after 1GB backed up. I have contacted customer support to see if this is because I am using trial or flaw. While I was waiting thought I would ask if anyone has any better options they are using.

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  • __red____red__ Posts: 470
    edited 2014-06-01 22:18
    I love and adore crashplan.com.

    10 machines, unlimited storage in the cloud. Will happily back-up your machines to other machines on your home network or on your friend's machines (encrypted) for free.

    Web interface available to restore small amounts and timeliness to restore previous versions.

    More than $50 per year but get it anyways. Money only required for storing in their cloud.
  • mctriviamctrivia Posts: 3,772
    edited 2014-06-02 03:58
    I took a look at crashplan. Looks like a pretty nice system. Would be a great way to go if you have a few friends around the country with very large hard drives that you can back up on each others systems. For use as backup to your own server and cloud that server does not look like it will work though since as far as I can tell from documentation on there site it archives the entire backup to a single file making backups via cloud impractical.

    I have now gotten Truesafe working perfectly just trying to see if I can get something cheaper then $30/computer that still works with cloud archive.
  • Peter KG6LSEPeter KG6LSE Posts: 1,383
    edited 2014-06-03 14:35
    mctrivia wrote: »
    To prevent data crashes I started using backblaze a while back. The service is excelent. It runs in the background and keeps everything backed up all the time(even my server rig at 2TB of data). .

    how do you keep it from backing up Bad data .

    Like a buggy update ( EG Firefox 29 is a joke ! so I rolled back to 28 for now ) and how about malware or worse .

    all these darn near RAID mirror backups can be great for up to the min backups .but at what risk

    Iam just wondering how you have mitigated this .
  • TorTor Posts: 2,010
    edited 2014-06-03 16:25
    Crashplan offers a sevice where they send you a disk and you fill it up and send it back, for that initial backup - if you have lots of data. Then you continue with backing up over the network, with your initial disk data injected into the cloud as a starting point.
    For that concept to work the system must use some type of differential backup or it would be no point. They also support timelined backups where you can get any old version (unlimited IIRC(!)). Good for that bad-data scenario. Unfortunately not supported in the no-pay variant, even with local storage only.
    I have been looking at Crashplan, but have not decided.

    -Tor
  • AdamantiumOgreAdamantiumOgre Posts: 31
    edited 2014-06-03 17:07
    Tor wrote: »
    Crashplan offers a sevice where they send you a disk and you fill it up and send it back, for that initial backup - if you have lots of data. Then you continue with backing up over the network, with your initial disk data injected into the cloud as a starting point.
    For that concept to work the system must use some type of differential backup or it would be no point. They also support timelined backups where you can get any old version (unlimited IIRC(!)). Good for that bad-data scenario. Unfortunately not supported in the no-pay variant, even with local storage only.
    I have been looking at Crashplan, but have not decided.

    -Tor

    +1 for crashplan. Have had a few connection glitches, but they are cheap.
  • mctriviamctrivia Posts: 3,772
    edited 2014-06-04 07:35
    Peter KG6LSE wrote: »
    how do you keep it from backing up Bad data .

    Like a buggy update ( EG Firefox 29 is a joke ! so I rolled back to 28 for now ) and how about malware or worse .

    all these darn near RAID mirror backups can be great for up to the min backups .but at what risk

    Iam just wondering how you have mitigated this .

    I personally don't worry about old versions of files. I am worried about hard drive crashes.

    I have now started using buddybackup to backup to my server. Free and easy to use and best of all backblaze will backup the backup
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